Madonna Aims to Help Detroit Hometown by Funding Charities
Jul-01-2014

Madonna will help out her home city of Detroit by contributing funds to three organizations attempting to improve conditions in the Motor City.

The Downtown Youth Boxing Gym offers after-school boxing and educational mentoring to 65 kids in Detroit's Eastside community, with Madonna providing the funding to build a new facility for the community. The Detroit Achievement Academy, which Madonna is supporting, aims to supply new equipment and art and music supplies to area classrooms in Michigan's poorest ZIP code. The singer's third organization, the Empowerment Plan, employs homeless women to sew coats and sleeping bags for homeless in Detroit and around the country.

"I was deeply inspired by the efforts of so many people who I met who have dedicated themselves to helping the kids and adults in Detroit elevate themselves from the cycle of poverty," Madonna said in a statement. "I have seen the results their commitment and hard work have already accomplished. From meeting the kids at Downtown Youth Boxing Gym who have a 100 percent high school graduation rate, to seeing how eager the students at the Detroit Achievement Academy are to learn about the arts, to understanding the value of giving homeless women the opportunity to become self-sufficient through the Empowerment Plan, it was obvious to me that I had to get involved and be part of the solution to help Detroit recover. A piece of my heart will always be in Detroit and I'm humbled to be able to give back to my community."

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