Will Smith

In up-to-the-minute news, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith were spotted on Saturday, April 17th at the American Red Cross Charity fundraiser in Santa Monica, California. The Red Tie Affair Fundraiser Gala was held at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel.

It’s now been almost two months since the earthquake hit Haiti. One of the many items that the country’s leaders are asking other nations to help to provide is tents. They need these tents to shelter thousands of homeless victims who have been living on the streets of Port Au Prince.

Just recently, Dr. S. Allen Counter, along with Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, stepped up to the task at hand. Dr. S. Allen Counter is a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and the director of the Harvard Foundation. He delivered over 150 tents to homeless families in the Port Au Prince area.

Each of these tents can house a family of six to eight people, and offer them a temporary, dry dwelling location. Most of these tents were generously donated to Dr. Counter by actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. A dozen were donated by children of the Mariah Baldwin Elementary School in Cambridge

Read more about the amazing work that Dr. Counter has been doing in Haiti, and in other locations in need.

This weekend, some of the biggest starts in Hollywood came out to support Haiti and to raise money for the people there. Soon after the earthquake hit on January 12th, George Clooney spoke with the MTV Networks president to try to pull together a star-studded telethon.

Since that first phone call, over 100 actors and musicians signed on to join the “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief” which aired on Friday on over 60 networks and online. Such stars included Beyonce, Madonna, Will Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift, Former President Clinton, actors Brad Pitt and Chris Rock and many others.

MTV explained that it was the most widely distributed telethon ever. The event was aired on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, BET, the CW, HBO, MTV, VH1 and CMT. It was also aired on CNN International and across the MTV Networks Worldwide which reaches millions and millions of people.

For more information, see the following articles:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-telethon22-2010jan22,0,5891457.story

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-haiti-telethon23-2010jan23,0,2144422.story

Certainly, Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett-Smith couldn’t have known just how well-timed their charity work would be.  Beginning on January 8^th, Will and Jada joined forces with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), along with other celebrities, to eradicate hunger in Haiti.

With this goal in mind, they signed special artwork that was donated to the Nobel Peace Prize concert last month.  The artwork, which Will Smith personally decorated and signed with the words, “There can be no true peace in the world while there is hunger,” is being sold on eBay.

All proceeds from the auction will help schoolchildren in Haiti to have nutritious meals.

Read more at: http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2010/01/will_smith_auctions_art_haiti_relief.php#ixzz0ca3luhWc