Singer-songwriter Debbie Gibson will appear on season five of ‘Celebrity Apprentice,’ and has announced she will play for the charity Children International.

Celebrity Apprentice is a reality television show where celebrities compete in weekly challenges and donate any winnings to their personal charities. Every week, the celebrity contestants will work in two teams, each under the guidance of a designated project manager, to compete in business-driven tasks around New York City, using their fame, along with their proven business acumen, to win challenges.

Contestants are subjected to long hours, grueling deadlines, intellectual challenges, personality clashes, and intense scrutiny under the careful watch of Donald Trump and his advisors. The last person standing will be chosen as the Celebrity Apprentice and have the honor of delivering a $250,000 bonus check to their designated charity.

Gibson will compete to help provide 5,000 poor children in India with medical and dental care and educational support. Children International president and CEO Jim Cook said, “Children International is fortunate to have such a dedicated supporter as Debbie Gibson. She has proven she is an ardent advocate for children living in the most extreme poverty.”

Gibson, who is the youngest performer ever to write and record a number one song, has been a supporter of the U.S.-based humanitarian organization since 1991. Currently, she helps support 7-year-old Helen, her mother and five siblings living in a cemetery in Manila, Philippines. Helen and her family guard a cemetery crypt, and live on less than $11 a month. With Gibson’s help, Helen and her siblings now receive medical and dental care and attend school.

Children International’s programs provide poor children like Helen with medical and dental care, educational support and health education to children and youth, some whose families live on less than $1.25 a day.

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2 Comments for Children International Gets Help from ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Singer Debbie Gibson

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Children International is very well respected charity and will make good use of the money.

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Karol Skelton

India ? Phillipeans? What are you thinking?? I am so amazed that people with $$… apparently DEBRA Gibson has No idea what every day ordinary people in the United States Of America are going through!!
But then…someone that is “LQQKING” for a New York “PAD’ with a place of Honor for her prized “Liberace” piano…doesn’t really care anyway!! It is no wonder “Our Country”… our great country is in the shape it is!! I want to preface this by saying..I have never posted a comment before….and I am sure that this is just a waste of my time…because I doubt this will ever be read by her!! I bet there are more important people that she would listen to! But I just cried…when I heard her say what charity she was supporting and what poverty they were living in! I give all the time…not on a grand scale..but you might say the “Widow’s Mite”because I believe…if you don’t give it can not be given back to you!! But I start in my own neighborhood!! The young single Mom across the street…going to school to become a Nurse & working a full time job…just a casserole once in awhile or taking her little girl to the movies with my grand daughters…which I am raising by myself also…Our little church…by giving a extra $20.00 once in awhile…so a child can go to camp this summer…and gas for the church van to pick kids up! i do this and no one knows…that I can barely
afford gas for my own car! But when God lays something on your heart…it has to be listened to!! I could say alot more..at least I have had my say…and feel better because of it!! Thanks for listening!! (Reading)
Karol Skelton

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