Annie Lennox
Sin dai primi anni ’90 la cantante scozzese si dedica attivamente a raccolte fondi per opere di beneficenza, servendosi dell’arte come strumento per la lotta all’AIDS. Nel 1999 ha donato gli incassi di un intero tour di concerti alle associazioni Amnesty International e Greenpeace, di cui è pubblica sostenitrice e dal 2007 è coinvolta in qualità di supporter nelle campagne 46664, TAC, SING e Mothers2Mothers, che reclamano i diritti all’istruzione e all’assistenza sanitaria per le persone colpite dal virus HIV in Sud Africa. Nel 2008 la Croce Rossa internazionale le consegna The Red Cross Humanitarian Award e nel 2012 viene nominata dall’UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. Annie supporta inoltre la Burma Campaign UK, organizzazione non governativa che promuove la democratizzazione e lo sviluppo della Birmania. Nel 2011 è stata nominata Ufficiale dell’Ordine dell’Impero Britannico dalla Regina Elisabetta II per le sue “instancabili campagne di beneficenza per la difesa di cause umanitarie”.
Ever since the early 1990s, the Scottish she-singer has been actively committing herself to charity funds raising, having recourse to art as a tool for fighting AIDS. It was in 1999 that the artist donated the intakes of a whole tour to two international humanitarian organisations, namely Amnesty International and Greenpeace, both of which she has always publicly been referred to a fervent backer. Since 2007 Annie Lennox has been involved as an official supporter to such campaigns as 46664, TAC, SING and Mothers2Mothers, which demand rights to instruction, and health assistance for all those plagued by HIV virus in South Africa. In 2008, she was assigned The Red Cross Humanitarian Award by the International Red Cross and in 2012 she is appointed Goodwill Ambassador by the authoritative UNESCO. Annie does also sustain the Burma Campaign UK, an N.G.O. that promotes democracy and development in Myanmar. In 2011, Annie Lennox was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for her “tireless charity campaigns and championing of humanitarian causes”.
