Media juggernaut Oprah Winfrey announced her charity is donating 12 million dollars to organizations helping under-served communities during COVID-19 in places she calls home.
The large donation is meant to serve in helping black and brown communities in their battle with Covid-19 in Chicago, along with Nashville, Milwaukee, Baltimore, and Kosciusko, Mississippi.
After speaking with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and other leaders, Oprah’s charity is donating funds in upwards of $5 million to Chicago organizations helping communities of color.
Donations will support Live Healthy Chicago, an initiative that provides families in predominately African-American and Latinx communities, known to face an elevated risk of severe symptoms, immediate support in the form of wellness visits, contact tracing and care packages by building the capacity of organizations that are on the front lines in the fight against this pandemic today while also invested in the long term recovery of these communities.
“One of the things that I wanted to do was to give back directly into the black community and also understand for myself that the essential service for people that have means, no matter who you are or what those means are, the essential work for us is to recognize that at this moment, the people who have been the essential workers for us all and have shown us united in ways that we didn’t even know, that it is our essential work to give back,” Oprah said.
