Current Events > George Clooney and his wife to open 7 schools for 3,000 refugee children

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George and Amal Clooney are making sure that despite the overwhelming obstacles faced by Syrian refugee children overseas, they will have the opportunity to seek an education.

That’s because the Clooney Foundation for Justice has just announced that they will be donating $2.25 million to build 7 public schools for 3,000 Syrian refugee children in Lebanon.

The donation, which was made as a part of an educational campaign in partnership with Google and Unicef, will hopefully offer relief during one of the largest humanitarian crises since WWII.

“They have been victims of geography and circumstance, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t hope,” said the couple in a statement to the AP. “Our goal with this initiative is to help provide Syrian refugee children with an education and put them on a path to be the future leaders their generation desperately needs.”

“Thousands of young Syrian refugees are at risk – the risk of never being a productive part of society. Formal education can help change that. That’s our goal with this initiative. We don’t want to lose an entire generation because they had the bad luck of being born in the wrong place at the wrong time,” said the Clooneys.

Full ARticle: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/clooneys-foundation-open-7-schools-3000-syrian-refugee-children/

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/George-and-Amal-ClooneySyrian-Refugee-CC-George-BairdUnicef-Romenzi.jpg

What a nice guy.
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Something something Clooney, something something moved because it was too unsafe for this family.
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LIMOUSINE LIBERAL

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Returning_CEmen posted...

Something something Clooney, something something moved because it was too unsafe for this family.

so?
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Bump
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Returning_CEmen posted...

Something something Clooney, something something moved because it was too unsafe for this family.

so?

What happened?
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I mean you'd have to be pretty dumb to get mad about this. It's literally his money and the schools are in Lebanon.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

in Lebanon.

I am okay with this.
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Cool, wish people cared about America like they do other countries.
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"Shit, I ran back to the US looking bad. How can I boost my image?"
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voldothegr8 posted...

"Shit, I ran back to the US looking bad. How can I boost my image?"

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unpleasant_milk posted...

voldothegr8 posted...

"Shit, I ran back to the US looking bad. How can I boost my image?"

It's sad if you think this is about his image.


I mean if it wasn't for me you never would have heard about it. And when you do hear about it, you dismiss it anyway.

So what does it have to do with image?

You're just a needlessly sad and cynical lonely human being who can no longer see joy in life if it challenges your worldview or thought process one iota.

A pity.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

unpleasant_milk posted...

voldothegr8 posted...

"Shit, I ran back to the US looking bad. How can I boost my image?"

It's sad if you think this is about his image.


I mean if it wasn't for me you never would have heard about it. And when you do hear about it, you dismiss it anyway.

So what does it have to do with image?

You're just a needlessly sad and cynical lonely human being who can no longer see joy in life if it challenges your worldview or thought process one iota.

A pity.

Think about it, he can donate $2 million to causes any damn time he pleases. So why now?
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voldothegr8 posted...

"Shit, I ran back to the US looking bad. How can I boost my image?"

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I have no idea why anyone would have a problem with this.
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voldothegr8 posted...

Think about it, he can donate $7 million to causes any damn time he pleases. So why now?

He's been helping causes for years, started this foundation a year ago and now is when Google and HP Inc worked with UNICEF and the Lebanese Ministry of Education to open and develop a bunch of schools so he joined in with them.


What a dumb thing to say. You just want a reason to be angered by this.
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voldothegr8 posted...

Think about it, he can donate $2 million to causes any damn time he pleases. So why now?

he does shit like this all the time

Gheb posted...

I have no idea why anyone would have a problem with this.

It's CE. All CE wants to do is argue, virtue-signal and make everyone else feel uncomfortable or cause them to fly off the handle. It's a den of emotionally stunted morons and trolls.
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There's plenty of kids here who could of used the money. Instead of building schools in which they will be taught to hate America and an effigy of Clooney will be burned weekly.
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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Cool, wish people cared about America like they do other countries.

this is the lowest-tier response to charitable donations and I see it all the time
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Blackstar110 posted...

gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Cool, wish people cared about America like they do other countries.

this is the lowest-tier response to charitable donations and I see it all the time

It's just crazy to me. You can help out your fellow people or people from a place you have no attachment to. Just strange.

The Bears and the Buccaneers have the exact same charity and you can put down the exact same amount of money to either one of them....which are you picking? Exactly. That's how I wish it was with America.
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Anyone who complains that no one is stumping up the cash to do this kind of thing in America: you're perfectly free to chip in yourself any time.

Those who do nothing have no right to criticise people who at least do something. Don't like the cause they're working for? Then give to a cause you agree with instead of bitching about it and doing fuck all yourself.
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Lol, you guys on the internet take shit way too seriously. I couldn't care less how he spends his money, just think it's funny.

And if I had hundreds of millions of dollars I'd be helping out where im from and where I grew up.
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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

And if I had hundreds of millions of dollars I'd be helping out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHVR485txX8
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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Lol, you guys on the internet take shit way too seriously. I couldn't care less how he spends his money, just think it's funny.

And if I had hundreds of millions of dollars I'd be helping out where im from and where I grew up.

What if you grew up in an affluent neighborhood?
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CableZL posted...

gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Lol, you guys on the internet take shit way too seriously. I couldn't care less how he spends his money, just think it's funny.

And if I had hundreds of millions of dollars I'd be helping out where im from and where I grew up.

What if you grew up in an affluent neighborhood?

Booster club.

KillerKhan420 posted...

There's plenty of kids here who could of used the money.

KillerKhan420 posted...

could of

*triggered*
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It doesn't make up for that shitty Batman movie, but it's a start.
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XxKrazyChaosxX posted...

It doesn't make up for that shitty Batman movie, but it's a start.

So... he paid off the donation with a bat credit card?

Questionmarktarius posted...

XxKrazyChaosxX posted...

It doesn't make up for that shitty Batman movie, but it's a start.

So... he paid off the donation with a bat credit card?

He never leaves home without it.
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he should help in syria instead

CableZL posted...

gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Lol, you guys on the internet take shit way too seriously. I couldn't care less how he spends his money, just think it's funny.

And if I had hundreds of millions of dollars I'd be helping out where im from and where I grew up.

What if you grew up in an affluent neighborhood?

Well I meant America when I said where im from. Plenty of poor places to help here.

And I believe Clooney was born in Kentucky and raised there and Ohio....plenty of places in those 2 states that could use that money.
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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

And I believe Clooney was born in Kentucky and raised there and Ohio....plenty of places in those 2 states that could use that money.

Both of Amal's parents are Lebanese. They have a personal connection w/ lebanon as well

gatorsPENSbucs posted...

CableZL posted...

gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Lol, you guys on the internet take shit way too seriously. I couldn't care less how he spends his money, just think it's funny.

And if I had hundreds of millions of dollars I'd be helping out where im from and where I grew up.

What if you grew up in an affluent neighborhood?

Well I meant America when I said where im from. Plenty of poor places to help here.

And I believe Clooney was born in Kentucky and raised there and Ohio....plenty of places in those 2 states that could use that money.

What if George Clooney's "where I'm from" is the planet Earth?
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I like telling celebrities what to do with their money, too. much easier than getting at government institutions for disagreeable appropriation of my money via taxes, though.
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