I can ask you who Bob Marley is to you and your answer is most likely going to be he’s a stoner musician. I am here to make my claim he’s more than just that, I want to tell you why I think he’s a hero and with what he has done to deserve to be a memorable hero.Bob is a kind a generous person and you’re about to find out why I think he is.
Bob Marley has funded twenty-seven fundraising and awareness projects. Theses projects have made over $1.3 million in donations to causes that have saved more than 255,000 lives. Rita Marley today, she heads both the Bob Marley foundation and the Rita Marley foundation, organizations that work to end poverty in Jamaica and Africa. In July 2006, she told ABC’s Good Morning America. “We have been funding ourselves in whatever we have been doing, especially in Ghana and Ethiopia. We’ve been doing it out of our own pockets in terms of what Bob left us….[The greatest needs are] water, food, clothing, toothbrush to brush their teeth and someone to love them. So we have decided to give back to what is really in need and it’s just not about black people, but every kind of people, you know.” Already knowing he has twenty-seven fundraising and awareness projects to end poverty in …show more content…
“He is a hero” and my claim is to make that statement true. Not only his foundations were powerful reaching to other people, but his music had it to them too. His music were powerful messages trying to make this world a better place. In 1972 Prime Minister of Jamaica, Michael Manley was elected. Four years later Marley was the most popular person in Jamaica. He refused to take political stance as the country was divided up between Manley’s people. At that time it was very violent in the country. Marley tried to stay politically neutral and offer peace and shelter however he could. His Hope Road hope was kind of a safehouse for people with nowhere to go. He sang in One Love to create that peace back in
Bob Marley has funded twenty-seven fundraising and awareness projects. Theses projects have made over $1.3 million in donations to causes that have saved more than 255,000 lives. Rita Marley today, she heads both the Bob Marley foundation and the Rita Marley foundation, organizations that work to end poverty in Jamaica and Africa. In July 2006, she told ABC’s Good Morning America. “We have been funding ourselves in whatever we have been doing, especially in Ghana and Ethiopia. We’ve been doing it out of our own pockets in terms of what Bob left us….[The greatest needs are] water, food, clothing, toothbrush to brush their teeth and someone to love them. So we have decided to give back to what is really in need and it’s just not about black people, but every kind of people, you know.” Already knowing he has twenty-seven fundraising and awareness projects to end poverty in …show more content…
“He is a hero” and my claim is to make that statement true. Not only his foundations were powerful reaching to other people, but his music had it to them too. His music were powerful messages trying to make this world a better place. In 1972 Prime Minister of Jamaica, Michael Manley was elected. Four years later Marley was the most popular person in Jamaica. He refused to take political stance as the country was divided up between Manley’s people. At that time it was very violent in the country. Marley tried to stay politically neutral and offer peace and shelter however he could. His Hope Road hope was kind of a safehouse for people with nowhere to go. He sang in One Love to create that peace back in