Rihanna is giving back to honor her late
grandmother, who
she called Gran Gran
Dolly.
According to E!
Online, the singer has donated $1.75 million to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown, in
the name of her grandmother, Clara "Dolly" Braithwaite.
The hospital's radiation department will be
renamed the Clara
Braithwaite Centre for Oncology and Nuclear Medicine.
"This was my way of giving back to
Barbados, in a form of philanthropy, by assisting the QEH in its continued
modernization program…I believe that this will have a huge impact on the people
of Barbados. This was all done to save lives or at least extend them," the
singer said in a statement to E!.
Rihanna shared the news of her
grandmother's death in June on Twitter, writing, "Goodbye #grangranDOLLY get
your beauty rest until I see you."
The singer also honored her grandmother by
getting a tattoo across her chest after Dolly lost her battle with breast
cancer.
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