Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively donate $1M to Chicago non-profit that helps children separated from

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Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively donate $1M to Chicago non-profit that helps children separated from family at border


Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have donated $1 million to a Chicago non-profit dedicated to helping children separated from their families by U.S. immigration authorities, the organization announced Wednesday.

Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights announced the donation a little more than a year after another famous married couple — George and Amal Clooney — donated $100,000 to the group at a time when public fury over family separation policies under the administration of President Donald Trump spiked.

The Young Center, 2245 S. Michigan Ave., is the only organization in the country the U.S. government taps to act as advocates for children being separated at the border from their parents.

The donation by Lively and Reynolds will create the Waymaker Fund for Immigrant Children. It will provide essential financial support to the Young Center’s Child Advocate program and ensure that attorneys, social workers and volunteers defend the rights and best interests of immigrant children who migrate to the United States by themselves or who have been forcibly taken from their parents.

Read more: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/9/4/20849194/ryan-reynolds-blake-lively-donation-chicago-non-profit-family-separation-border