Jennifer Lawrence has donated $2 million to a children’s hospital in her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.
The money will be used to build the Jennifer Lawrence Foundation Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Kosair Children’s Hospital.
The charitable 25-year-old announced the news with a video message, and also used the opportunity to encourage others to raise funds for the cause.
‘As part of my effort to help these children and caregivers, I challenge the entire community to get behind this cause and help match my gift by raising an additional $2 million to support all of these brave and inspiring children,’ Jennifer said in the clip .
The Joy actress’s mother Karen and father Gary – who used to run a children’s summer camp – were at the hospital on Friday, speaking to the press about the daughter’s donation.
The news comes Jennifer less than two months after Jennifer visited patients at the hospital on Christmas Eve – something she had also done the previous year.
Veronica Tracie, whose daughter Bria, met Jennifer during the visit, said: ‘She was very sweet, genuine, and I could feel the beauty of her soul.
‘You know how some people just light up the room, or you just feel comfortable in their presence.’
Jennifer also took a break from filming X-Men: Apocalypse in Montreal, Canada, in August to spend time with the patients at Shriners Hospital for Children.
Shriners Hospital wrote on Facebook: ‘A very special visitor stopped by our Canada hospital today. Jennifer Lawrence is in Montreal filming a new movie and she made time to visit some of our #ShrinersCanada kids and staff. Everyone had a great time!’
Jennifer was an assistant nurse at her parents’ camp before she became an Oscar-winning actress.
And she previously revealed that she planned to become a full-time nurse if she didn’t make it in Hollywood.
Jennifer said in May 2014 on Live! With Kelly And Michael: ‘I actually had a five-year plan when I came out here to act. I was like, “I’ll give it five years, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll go to nursing school.”‘
