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Jennifer Lopez : Charity Work And Causes

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Over her many years of fame, Jennifer Lopez has contributed to many charities, and services to help others all over the world. Jennifer Lopez donates to over 20 charities worldwide. She helps support Children’s Health Fund, Amnesty International, MusiCares, DKMS, Love Our Children USA, Red Cross, City of Hope and many other important foundations (Jennifer Lopez: Charity Work & Causes). Jennifer does many things to help support her charities she gives to. “Lopez teamed up with Amnesty International to launch a bilingual website aimed at raising awareness about Mexican femicide after learning that 350 young women have been killed in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua since 1993”(Jennifer Lopez: Charity Work & Causes). Although, Lopez donates to many charities, she also developed one of her own. Lopez also has developed her own organization called the Lopez Family Foundation. Lopez came up with the idea of this organization because of a health scare with her daughter Emme. Lopez explained, ““Very early after my twins were born, my daughter developed this bump on the back of her head,” Lopez says. “So I rushed to the hospital, and it was the middle of the night and the doctor met me there. And I had all these privileges, which wasn’t lost on me. I went back that night and thought, what if I didn’t have that? What if something was really wrong with her?””(Barker, Andrew).Since that incident Jennifer and Lynda began developing their own foundation, and it was finally launched in 2009.

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