Avicii is doing a charity tour in the USA during January 2012. He's personally donating 1.000.000 USD via the charity organization Feeding America to fight hunger in America.
House for Hunger: Taking in 25 venues over 26 days across the USA throughout January, Swedish superstar Avicii and manager-mentor Ash Pournouri are set to donate a staggering 1 MILLION DOLLARS to the charitable organisation ‘Feeding America’. In a remarkable effort to combat hunger in what is commonly misperceived to be the ‘Land of Prosperity’, and dubbed “The ‘Live Aid’ of Electronica”, this is without question the largest benevolent offering the dance music world has ever witnessed.
Now, to accompany this groundbreaking ‘House For Hunger’ tour, Avicii, Ash and the At Night management team deliver their hard-hitting and touching official tour video…
Laying bare each and every distressing fact about the severity and pre-eminence of hunger throughout the United States, this poignant, thought-provoking 2-and-a-half-minute snippet succinctly explains the cause and purpose of their philanthropic mission.
Shedding light upon a number of disturbing statistics and troubling figures, the video clearly highlights the stark gravity of the issue that is poverty in America. To put it into perspective, a shocking 1 in 6 people in the USA do not have access to enough food, which as the video rightly states, is a BASIC human right. Yet more worrying, the number of hungry children in America exceeds the entire population of the Netherlands!
There’s no denying the problem; it’s time to act now.