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Beyonce Knowles and Kelly Rowland are working on a project together, but it’s not a Destiny’s Child reunion. It’s an apartment block of crisis housing in Houston.
Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland were on hand Wednesday for the groundbreaking of the Knowles-Rowland Temenos Place apartments on the corner of Gray and Chenevert.
The project is backed by the Survivor Foundation, which was set up by the Knowles family and Rowland after Katrina in 2005.
Other sponsors include St. John’s United Methodist Church and the city of Houston.
The project is described as a 43 unit single-occupancy transitional housing development designed to provide housing for women and men taking “significant steps in improving their lives after … personal and natural disasters,” the Survivor Foundation reports.
Construction of the apartments is expected to cost $4 million.
Beyoncé, Rowland, and Solange, Mathew and Tina Knowles have pledged $1 million to the project.
It seems that the two singers have used all their connections to get funding for the apartments, including Wal-Mart and American Express, and more unusual sponsors like L’Oreal and Giorgio Armani. The apartment is not the first humanitarian project Beyonce and Kelly have worked on together, it’s on the same block as the Knowles-Rowland Centre for Youth Recreation.
I love it when celebrities use their powers for good instead of evil.
Picture note by Celebitchy: Header image is of Destiny’s Child announcing their tour dates on 5/4/05 thanks to PRPhotos.
Written by Helen
Posted in Beyonce, Good Causes, Kelly Rowland
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