Jaden Smith isn’t just an actor and a musician. The 22-year-old son of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith is also a social activist — more specifically a water activist.
His nonprofit 501Cthree.org has teamed up with KindHuman and Homeless Health Care to install a water box in Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles to provide clean drinking water at the rate of 10 gallons per minute. The box is at the ReFresh Spot, which provides community access to restrooms, showers and laundry facilities.
“ReFresh Spot is expanding and they’re growing, so we wanted to team up with them not only to help but also shed more light on them,” Smith tells Variety.
Smith’s work follows the installation of four water boxes in Flint, Mich., since 2019 as well as one in Newark, N.J. Next up is Uganda, where installation has been delayed because of the pandemic. “It was...
His nonprofit 501Cthree.org has teamed up with KindHuman and Homeless Health Care to install a water box in Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles to provide clean drinking water at the rate of 10 gallons per minute. The box is at the ReFresh Spot, which provides community access to restrooms, showers and laundry facilities.
“ReFresh Spot is expanding and they’re growing, so we wanted to team up with them not only to help but also shed more light on them,” Smith tells Variety.
Smith’s work follows the installation of four water boxes in Flint, Mich., since 2019 as well as one in Newark, N.J. Next up is Uganda, where installation has been delayed because of the pandemic. “It was...
- 12/2/2020
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
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