Mega star Rihanna, on a working visit to Barbados, made a stop at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital yesterday (Nov 21st) as she checked in on a centre dedicated to her grandmother’s memory.
The 26-year-old Grammy winner and her mother, Monica Fenty, arrived after 10 a.m. to visit the Clara Brathwaite Centre for Oncology and Nuclear Medicine for an update on the facility named after Rihanna’s beloved “Gran Gran Dolly”, who succumbed to cancer two years ago.
Ri-Ri personally donated funds to establish the existing centre and purchased the facility’s first modern radiotherapy machine which was in use yesterday. She stopped to chat with the cancer patient using the machinery and reports are that she also saw where the area is being retrofitted for another piece of equipment she is set to donate.
The footage from Rihanna’s 45-minute visit will be featured as part of the presentation for the upcoming Diamond Ball on December 11, a fund-raiser for The Clara Lionel Foundation. Funds raised from the Diamond Ball will go towards improving the two-year-old center’s equipment and infrastructure planning at a project out of $2,4 million.
The singer will perform at the Diamond Ball at The Vineyard in Beverly Hills and will announce additional special guests soon.
Barbados Nation