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Rick Ross donated over $30,000 to a Georgia healthcare clinic on the verge of closing, presenting them with the check on Juneteenth.

Source: Barry Brecheisen / Getty A healthcare clinic in Georgia will remain open after being on the brink of closing, thanks to a generous donation from Rick Ross. On Monday (June 19), the Maybach Music Group mogul and rapper presented a check for $30,179 to the team of women running the Fayette C.A.R.E. Clinic in Fayette County, Georgia. The clinic enables poorer families to have access to the premium healthcare they need including affordable medication and doctors. The patients that come to this clinic, all of them, their income level is 200% below the poverty level. The national poverty level, said Geneva Weaver, the clinics executive director. Ross is a resident of Fayette County and got word of the clinics potential closing through his lawyer, Steve Sadow. Before his donation, the C.A.R.E. Clinic had raised $19,000 with a goal of $50,000. A clinic like this means a lot to me. I lost my father at an early age and I felt like one of the reasons I lost him so early was his lack of healthcare, the artist said at the ceremony where the check was presented. I look forward to continuing to help out as much as possible. I consider you family, friends, and of course, neighbors. Local network WSB-TV was present as Weaver thanked Ross along with other executives from the clinic. She said that the check was the largest donation from an individual donor that theyve had since opening their doors in 2005. The Aston Martin Music rapper was humble about the donation on his social media profiles, opting to share information on Juneteenth with his fans along with photos from his recent car and bike show held on his sprawling estate. That event didnt go over well with some in the county, as some attendees of that show trashed a plaza in South Fulton three miles away from his Promised Land estate. Local authorities believe they resorted to that behavior after not gaining entry to the event. Read more