Apart from singing musical hits and snagging Grammy Awards, international reggae artiste, Shaggy, still finds more time to help Jamaican children in need of healthcare. Now his efforts have crossed the borders as the Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation partners with Sow a Seed, a Florida-based charity organisation, to raise funds for new and refurbished wings at Bustamante Hospital for Children. The collaboration has been named OPERATION: Angels Rise and is scheduled for launch on Saturday, May 15, at the Fiction Lounge.

OPERATION: Angels Rise is a series of events scheduled for the summer and fall of 2010 to take place in Jamaica and the US. The events are planned around various activities aimed to raise funds to benefit Jamaican and Haitian children in need of healthcare and other vital necessities through the help of the Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation and Sow a Seed.

Proceeds will go to building wings at the Bustamante Hospital for Children for rehabilitation services to Jamaican children throughout the island and to Haitian orphans affected by the January 12 earthquake.

From 2004, Sow a Seed has been providing basic fundamentals to orphans living in Haiti’s extreme poverty. Since the earthquake, the number of orphans has nearly doubled.