She was left utterly devastated when her beloved grandmother passed away this summer and no doubt wanted to do something to honor her, and so Rihanna has very generously donated $1.75million) to a hospital in her native Barbados in memory of Clara ‘Dolly’ Braithwaite.
The pop star, 24, has given the money to the radiotherapy department at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown, which has now been renamed the Clara Braithwaite Center for Oncology and Nuclear Medicine.
Rihanna and her mother Monica visited the hospital on Saturday and in a statement the star said: “This was my way of giving back to Barbados, in a form of philanthropy, by assisting the QEH in its continued modernization program.
“I believe that this will have a huge impact on the people of Barbados. This was all done to save lives or at least extend them.”
Rihanna is back on the Caribbean island to spend time with her family over the Christmas holidays.
She was snapped doing some last minute Christmas shopping in Bridgetown where she chatted to fans and fellow shoppers who had flocked in their droves to see her.
She said she had been too busy to shop for the holidays and took to her Twitter page to ask her fans what she should get for her brother.
She wrote: “The most difficult person to buy for is my little brother. He’s getting to an age where toys aren’t fun anymore, any 16-year-olds here? Tweet me!”