Along with other celebrities, Kim Kardashian is doing all that she can to help in the battle against the global COVID-19 pandemic.
According to USA Today, Kardashian is taking part in the All In Challenge, which aims to raise funds for the organizations No Kid Hungry, Meals on Wheels America, Feeding America, and World Central Kitchen.
The 39-year-old offered her followers the chance not just to have lunch with her and her sisters, but to also have that lunch be aired as part of their long-running reality series, “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”
The Mail Online reports that Kardashian took part in the challenge after being challenged by supermodel Giselle Bunchen. In Bunchen’s video, she offers her followers the chance to come to her Dior photoshoot in New York City, as well as the opportunity to be worked on by top stylists and photographers.
This move by Kardashian certainly got a better response than her fragrance launch weeks ago. The launch of KKWxKRIS was criticized by netizens as “shameless” and “tone-deaf,” with some deriding Kardashian’s “love of money.” The criticism supposedly resulted in Kardashian earmarking some of the proceeds from the sale of the perfume for Blessings in a Backpack, an organization working to feed children left hungry because of coronavirus-induced school closures.
Of course, Kardashian is not the only celebrity to work towards providing COVID-19 relief. For her part in the All In Challenge, Gwyneth Paltrow, put up for auction her “not Oscars material” dress. Meanwhile, the “Living Room Concert for America” organized by Elton John was able to raise $8 million to help out Feeding America and the First Responders Children’s Foundation.
No Kid Hungry, one of the organizations that will be a beneficiary of the All In Challenge, also received a $1 million donation from Angelina Jolie beforehand. The organization aims to provide food to the 22 million schoolchildren left hungry by school closures caused by lockdowns.
Celebrities may have to continue doing these challenges for COVID-19 relief as cases of the disease continue to rise all over the world. In the situation report dated Apr. 28 from the World Health Organization, it is revealed that the world now has 2,954,222 people confirmed to have COVID-19, with 76,026 of those being new cases. Deaths because of COVID-19 are now at 202,597 people. New deaths make up 3,932 of that total number.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pegs the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States at 981,246 people, with 23,371 of those being new cases. The number of people that have died is now at 55,258.