Bon Jovi helps build homes for poor, AIDS patients |
USA Today - One of New Jersey's best-known rock 'n' rollers has teamed up with the state to provide affordable housing in the state's largest city.
Jon Bon Jovi's Philadelphia Soul Charitable Foundation is providing $1 million toward construction of a 51-unit building that will cater to homeless people with special needs, like AIDS patients.
The $15 million building, called Genesis Apartments, will rise where there is now a vacant lot. Joining Bon Jovi at Tuesday's ground breaking were Gov. Jon Corzine, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, fashion designer Kenneth Cole and his wife, Maria Cuomo Cole, who runs HELP USA, a national nonprofit that is helping to build the units.
"Today I believe we're starting something," Bon Jovi said. "Together, I believe we can make a difference, one street, one neighborhood, one city, one soul at a time."
Jon Bon Jovi's Philadelphia Soul Charitable Foundation is providing $1 million toward construction of a 51-unit building that will cater to homeless people with special needs, like AIDS patients.
The $15 million building, called Genesis Apartments, will rise where there is now a vacant lot. Joining Bon Jovi at Tuesday's ground breaking were Gov. Jon Corzine, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, fashion designer Kenneth Cole and his wife, Maria Cuomo Cole, who runs HELP USA, a national nonprofit that is helping to build the units.
"Today I believe we're starting something," Bon Jovi said. "Together, I believe we can make a difference, one street, one neighborhood, one city, one soul at a time."
Categories : Musician News, Celebrity Causes
Posted 9/2/2008 04:09:56 AM | Permalink
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