Avril Lavigne Foundation: Helping Those With Disabilities Live Exceptional Lives

Avril Lavigne has a link on her website that reads "CHARITY" which the curious web surfer finds intriguing enough to click on. What you find is something that is not seen very often from any other artist out there. Most celebrities donate money to charity, which is a wonderful thing, Lavigne has a slightly different approach to how she works with charities.

Avril Lavigne submerges herself in the trenches when she works with charities. She is right there working with people, asking questions and helping in any way that she can. She is not afraid to get her hands dirty in order to do a good thing. If you ask her, she isn't doing it out of obligation, she isn't doing it to make her reputation better, she does it because that is what is in her heart. She donates her time, money, and skills in order to make the world a better place. It is apparent by the look on her face in the videos she posts of her working with disabled children at camps.

Now Lavigne will be sending children to this camp, in one video an attendee of the camp told Lavigne that camp was the reason he was not angry about his disability and how he lives life. He says without camp, he doesn't know how miserable his life would be. Another woman in the video says when she is at camp, her wheelchair becomes invisible and is a non-issue. She says it is the only place in which she can feel completely normal. One of the counselors said that at camp, they are the strange ones, everyone else is normal.

Lavigne is starting a fund which will help 50 people with disabilities attend the camp who otherwise would not have been able to afford it. Lavigne sets an example here, and there is a lesson to be learned here.

Even if you are a rocker who is supposed to have an edgy, hardcore side, that doesn't mean you have to give up on your soft side as well. People will love and adore you all the same if you just show some love in return.