Emmy show will include $2.8M donation to fight child hunger

LOS ANGELES, September 21 ------ Every Emmy Award handed out Sunday will come with something extra — a $100,000 (around P4.8 million) donation to fight child hunger. The Television Academy announced Friday that each network and streaming service competing on the telecast has pledged the donation for every Emmy they win.

With 23 Emmys being handed out and the academy committing $500,000 (around P24.2 million), that will mean a donation of $2.8 million (around P135.8 million) to No Kid Hungry, a group working to relieve child hunger brought on by the coronavirus crisis.

Jimmy Kimmel is hosting from Staples Center in Los Angeles and winners will accept their awards from remote locations, but little beyond that has been revealed about what will happen during the show that is being put on under unique pandemic circumstances.

Source: entertainment.inquirer.net