Prog rock legends Rush have teamed up with Fantoons on a special-edition T-shirt benefiting the victims of the devastating earthquakes that hit Venezuela on June 24. The two massive magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 quakes which struck less than a minute apart, have claimed more than 2,200 lives and left 11,000 injured, with thousands of citizens still unaccounted for.
In an Instagram post from Fantoons — the L.A.-based animation studio that has created Rush-themed puzzles, mugs, cereal boxes and bass pickguards over the past decade — the studio said the strongest quakes to hit the country in more than a century left “countless families with nothing but the dust of where their homes stood.”
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In the aftermath, company co-founder, Venezuelan director David Calcano, reached out to the band “in the rawest hour, asking for help. The band answered the way they always have: without hesitation, with open hands and open hearts, collaborating on this one-of-a-kind shirt that will change lives.”
All profits from the colorful, limited-edition shirt featuring the group’s iconic Starman logo will go to Hogar Bambi, an organization that has provided shelter for Venezuela’s orphaned and abandoned children for more than three decades. The charity is now working to provide food, medicine and shelter for the youngest victims of the disaster.
Click here for a list of other ways you can help those impacted by the earthquakes.
To date, several artists, including Caracas natives Danny Ocean, Lele Pons, Lasso and Joaquina, have made pleas for fans to send aid or turned their socials into resources for victims of the temblors, which caused widespread building collapses in the capital city and in the coastal region of La Guaira, north of Caracas.
