JK Rowling receives Humanitarian Award from British Red Cross
Howard Lake | 12 March 2015 | News
The British Red Cross has presented author JK Rowling with its Humanity Award, designed to honour philanthropists and humanitarians whose work has changed people’s lives across the world.
She is founder and president of the international charity Lumos, which works to transform the lives of disadvantaged children across the world and to put an end to the harmful systematic institutionalisation of children.
She is also president of the Gingerbread charity for one-parent families.
In addition, in 2000, she set up the Volant Charitable Trust, which supports a wide number of causes related to inequality and social deprivation, particularly women’s and children’s issues, as well as MS research through the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic in Edinburgh. The trust has supported the Red Cross and its disaster appeals over a number of years.
Previous recipients of the Humanity Award
In past years the British Red Cross has presented the Humanity Award to Nelson Mandela, Sir Bob Geldof and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Mike Adamson, Chief Executive of the British Red Cross, presents the Humanity Award to JK Rowling
British Red Cross Chief Executive Mike Adamson, who presented the author with the award at a ceremony in Edinburgh, said:
“Few people can have touched as many lives through their generosity and courage to speak out as J.K. Rowling and she is an inspiration to others to give and to act. Her passion to change lives and help people is something we share here at the Red Cross”.
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