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Kanye West Helps "College Dropout’s"
Wednesday - February 02, 2005
Deniece Mason

Although he was the original “College Dropout”, Kanye West wants to help lower the school dropout rate. Kanye West has established the Kanye West Foundation in effort to help raise awareness about the value of education and fight the rising number of students that are dropping out of schools around the country. At his first reception for the new foundation on February 10th, Kanye will be discussing how he hopes to help add more music programs into schools.

According to MTV, the organizations first effort will be “Loop Dreams” a quest to bring more instruments back into schools and help at risk students learn how to read and write music. For Kanye being a college dropout proved to be a success, but he realizes that life won’t be so easy for everyone else. Along with his ten Grammy Award nominations (the show will air live on February 13th), Kanye is working on his next album “Late Registration” which will hit stores later this year.

Wyclef Jean Continuing to Support Haiti
Thursday - February 03, 2005
Deniece Mason

Continuing to bring hope to his homeland Wyclef Jean has established the Yele Haiti program. The Yele Haiti program is an effort to bring aid and attention to Haiti as the continue to go through what Wyclef calls a “mini civil war” between Aristide loyalists, police and guerrilla gangs. Formed by Wyclef and his cousin Jerry Duplessis, Wyclef wants to see the impoverished children gain a better educational standard. “With Clef, he’s like the Bob Marley for Jamaica, the Beatles for England, Elvis for America”, Jerry said to MTV. “People trust him”.

The programs first initiative is to give one hundred and thirty four scholarships to the Sports Academy that offers educations, soccer training and hot meals to students after school. The Yele project will also help to rebuild over twenty schools and provide more than 3,600 other scholarships to people in the city of Gonaives. Although there have been violent outbreaks throughout Haiti, Wyclef is making plans to do a “world festival” that may include a performance by the Fugees.