Celebrity "do-gooders"

     I was looking for a little inspiration on what to blog about this week. I went to the good ole internet due to the fact that I don't get the newspaper or any magazines. I was looking for something on celebrities and I got the usual search answers. There were relationship scandals, baby announcements, etc. However, I wanted to focus on something with more of an upside. I decided to ponder on celebrities that somehow "do good".

     There are many celebrities that indeed do good. They take their talents and what those talents have given them to give back to the community. The majority of the stories you hear about are ones where  these very famous beautiful celebrities go to countries with bad water supply or little to no food. While this is amazing, and we should definitely appreciate what they do, we also need to think about the celebrities that do things other than pose for a picture.

     There are countless celebrities that constantly donate to good causes. However, you don't see pictures of them posing with a check every time they donate. Just because they aren't advertising it all over the place does not mean that it should not be acknowledged. These charities as well as other administrations and corporations can use help just like the third world countries that newspapers and magazines publish.

     If you go onto Google and type in "celebrity do-gooders" then click on images, there is far more than just pictures of popular celebrities posing with children from Africa. You can even read through some stories about these celebrities. There are many accounts where they fund organizations for the less fortunate. They participate in food drives as well as working/volunteering at homeless shelters. They can help by doing anything from stating their opinion in a debate over horse usage in the streets of New York City to adopting kids that have never had anything. There are many more things that us Americans should recognize our celebrities doing. We should stop focusing on the good looking popular celebrities that go to third world countries and pose for a picture then leave. We need to start recognizing and acknowledging that there are many celebrities that give back locally, even if it means welcoming home soldiers or reading to children.

     If you can, when you get a chance, look into some of the good deeds that celebrities do, yet aren't publicized all over. You will be surprised the things people do and never get credit for.

~Hangin' from a clothesline