Will.i.am has given a donation of £500,000 to the Prince’s Trust in the hope that it will help find a new Mark Zuckerberg in deprived areas of London.
The rapper revealed that he had given most of his earnings from The Voice to the charity to help give London children a new technology initiative.
He tweeted: “I gave the majority of the money I made on the voice to the @PrincesTrust to build a tech programme to get the kids from east LDN up to speed (sic).”
The musician and philanthropist has teamed up with youth charity The Prince’s Trust to help the UK’s most disadvantaged young people get their lives on track, following a meeting with HRH The Prince of Wales, President of The Prince’s Trust.
The Black Eyed Peas frontman said there was musical creativity in neglected inner city areas around the world and suggested it could be channelled into developing the next internet sensation like the Facebook founder.
‘I don’t need that money you know. I should give that to the people that need it. It’s the people’s money,’ he said at a press conference in London.
‘It really takes one person, right, that’s one person from East London or Brixton to turn into Mark Zuckerberg, and that one person can create so much that it changes that community forever’.
The donation will help young people build skills for work, focussing on technology.
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