Caring for Health

1. Elton John

2. Who is Elton John?
 Elton Hercules John is an English singer, pianist, and
composer. He has worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin as his
songwriting partner since 1967; they have collaborated on
more than 30 albums to date. He has also been heavily
involved in the fight against AIDS since the late 1980s. In
1992, he established the Elton John AIDS Foundation and a
year later began hosting the annual Academy Award Party,
which has since become one of the highest-profile Oscar
parties in the Hollywood film industry. Since its inception, the
foundation has raised over US$200 million.

3. What has Elton John done?
 He has helped raise money for the pioneering charitable organizations
that were formed during those dark, grim years to fund AIDS research
and provide vital services to people with HIV/AIDS.
 In 2004 he donated over $43 million to organizations around the world,
making him the most generous person in music for that year – a title he
retains year after year.
 In 2008 he donated 120 motorcycles to the African nation of Lesotho,
to be used by doctors and nurses to visit patients in remote areas, and
in 1997 he raised $40 million for charity through sales of Candle In The
Wind, the single released following the death of Princess Diana.

4. What impacted him to donate?
 In the mid-1980s, I began channeling my grief into efforts to
help raise money for the pioneering charitable organizations
that formed during those dark, grim years to
fund AIDS research and provide vital services to people
with HIV/AIDS.” Sir Elton John has seen many of his close
friends die from HIV/AIDS over the years, and established
the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) in 1992 to try to stem
the destruction the disease causes around the world.“

5. Credits
 https://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/elton-john
 GROUP MEMBERS:
 Shawn Teo
 Matthew Tan
 Ryan Ho