RIHANNA MAY NOT have won at this year’s Grammy Awards, but she’s winning with the Ivy League.
The Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and actress has been named 2017 Harvard University Humanitarian Of The Year.
The 29-year-old Barbadian beauty will receive the Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award during a ceremony on the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus next Tuesday.
“Rihanna has charitably built a state-of-the-art centre for oncology and nuclear medicine to diagnose and treat breast cancer at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown, Barbados,” Harvard Foundation director S. Allen Counter said.
Last month Rihanna shed her usual pop star privileges as she dressed down to visit a Malawi school.
Make-up free and wearing a practical outfit of shirt and trousers, the Work singer looked ready to muck in as she visited the school in Lilongwe.
She toured the classrooms and met with the students during her charity trip.
“Met the bravest, most humble kids and young women this week! I can’t wait to share more! #CLF #GC #GPE,” she wrote alongside an Instagram snapshot with a group of children from her trip.
Rihanna travelled to Africa on behalf of her Clara Lionel Foundation, and is working as the ambassador for charities Global Citizen and the Global Partnership for Education.
In May last year, she launched the Clara Lionel Foundation’s Global Scholarship Programme, dedicated to giving people in nations such as Cuba, Haiti and her home country, Barbados, the chance to study at universities in the United States.
“Giving back is important to me and it should be important to everyone,” the multi-talented star said at her annual Diamond Ball Gala benefit in 2015. (Daily Mail)
