Demi Lovato News: 'Sorry Not Sorry' Singer Announces Global Citizen Ambassadorship, Program for Iraqi Children
Demi Lovato has taken one step forward in her advocacy for mental health awareness as the singer has announced that she is now the ambassador of Global Citizen for mental health and is forging a partnership with the Save the Children organization to help Iraqi children who have been displaced by war.
In a lengthy Facebook post, the "Sorry Not Sorry" singer narrated that she and her friend and partner Mike Bayer went to Kurdistan last year to visit one of the biggest refugee camps in the world. Lovato revealed she met a little girl there who told her that all she wanted was to be happy, something that the singer described as a simple yet difficult to achieve wish. Those words from the innocent girl hit Lovato, who claimed that she will forever remember it.
As the ambassador for Global Citizen for its mental health programs, Lovato can only hope that her projects, including the partnership with Save the Children organization's Healing and Education Through the Arts (HEART) program, can alleviate those in suffering, especially the Iraqi children. After all, it has been learned that HEART provides psychosocial support for children who suffer from serious or chronic stress by letting them engage in arts to process and express their feelings related to their experiences.
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"The trauma that displaced families and children from around the world feel not from losing their homes but also some people closest to them, is unfathomable and has long lasting impacts. My hope is that this program can bring a bit of comfort to those who need the most. This isn't about politics or race or religion. It's simply about humanity and protecting one another," Lovato said in her Facebook post.
Lovato has been open about her own share of struggles with mental illness in the past, admitting that she was diagnosed to have bipolar disorder back in 2011. Since then, she has worked with various organizations devoted to helping people with different types of mental illness, believing that it is something people should be more aware of, and the stigma on it should be eradicated.
