5 Most Charitable Celebrities In Hollywood

Celebrities are people who cannot afford to have their private life private. This is the price they choose to pay when it comes to being famous. Whatever they ought to do becomes viral. Most of the celebrities tend to use this platform for creating a brand image for themselves along with huge net worth. A lot of eminent celebrities too raise their voice for good causes.

In that category, few top celebrities who have supported for public welfare are:

1.Oprah Winfrey

Over the years of attaining her fame, Oprah has been a constant figure among the Hollywood elite people to devote herself to charities. She has been reported to have supported 29 different foundations and has spent around $40 million of her income. Oprah contributes mostly to 3 of her foundations- Oprah Winfrey Foundation, The Angel Network and Oprah Winfrey Operating Foundation. Major causes which she supports are related to lending her hand for problems involving women and children. Few notable causes are education for children in under-developed countries, hunger, abuse, parent support, human rights, physical challenges, slavery and human trafficking.

2.Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is widely known for huge adoption of children from all over the world. She became less available on screen after her high involvement for humanitarian works. Together with Brad Pitt, Angelina found The Maddox Jolie-Pitt foundation in 2006. All these philanthropy started for Jolie when she witnessed the poverty and struggles amidst shooting for Lara Croft: Tomb Rider. Her foundation’s main mission was to solve the crisis in Cambodia and the surrounding area to help children affected with AIDS/HIV. Jolie has donated $20 million overall for her charity works. Angelina Jolie well utilizes her fame to earn money to spend on relief and charitable foundations. She intends to keep up the social services in the upcoming years to with increasing causes to support for.

3.Matt Damon

From the moment he started working in the Running the Sahara documentary in 2009, Matt Damon was keen on helping people in Africa to have access to clean drinking water. It led to the launch of water.org foundation along with his documentary producer Gary White. Water.org aims to solve the water crisis in various communities of Africa. Damon has also been strongly fighting against plague in those areas. Along with spending his earning in the foundation, Damon makes his time for directly involving in the problem solving.

“Every 20 seconds, a child dies because they lack access toclean water and sanitation.Our kids aren’t going to die from diarrhea. That’s just an inconvenience to us in the West. But it is a stark, terrifying reality to billions of people on the planet”- Damon.

4.Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo proved his humanity always in the most distinguished way possible. The internationally accredited actor is a U.N. messenger of Peace for Climate. Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation was established in 1998, majorly supporting balance of nature. He continuously aims on voicing for environmental issues and other causes through nearly 30 foundation platforms. Various causes like disaster relief, oceans, peace, poverty, conservation and adoption are among the significant reasons Leonardo offers aid. He became the favorite real-life hero amidst people.

5.Emma Watson

One of the youngest actresses to get down into practically helping women across the world was Emma Watson. She became the U.N. Global Goodwill ambassador for Woman. Immensely she supports 8 different charities and foundations for gender equality, civil rights, education, fair trade, hunger, poverty and women. She encourages her huge-fan base to keep sending donations to UNICEF. The Harry Potter star even took a year off to do more public services and learn about Gender studies. Emma Watson became the prominent person in #heforshe movement which implies on improving gender equality and save women from abuse, brutality and violence. She dedicates her time to rescue more women and children going through a tough phase.

Over the years, celebrities have exhibited more involvement towards social causes through the fame and income they receive. Either it is for self-marketing or for real reasons, is not debatable until they have the intention of helping others and be the face of humanitarianism.