Mary J Blige Opens Women's Refuge
Published Sunday, 1st November, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Mary J Blige opened a new women's refuge based in New York on Thursday (October 27).
The project is the next step in Blige's charity work for women, which included establishing the Foundation For the Advancement of Women Now last year.
And now this last week saw the official opening of the Mary J Blige Center For Women.
"All age ranges will be able to come to this center," Mary told CNN. "Women from all walks of life, not just women from poverty-stricken areas. Whatever it is, they'll be able to come here."
"There are going to be psychologists here, doctors here, day care centers here. Anything that you need or they need to be able to better themselves is here for them."
Blige is just one of several celebrities in recent months who is proud to use their celebrity status to help those less fortunate.
"That's why I think as celebrities we're given this job," she feels. "We're not given this job to just hold onto this stuff and die with it.
"We're given this job to be able to touch someone and say 'Me too', because they look up to us and look to us for help and guidance and want to be able to relate to us."
