{"id":7654,"date":"2022-09-02T10:44:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T14:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/?p=7654"},"modified":"2022-09-02T10:44:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T14:44:24","slug":"newly-born-christian-kodak-black-donates-50k-worth-of-water-to-haitian-gang-violence-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2022\/09\/newly-born-christian-kodak-black-donates-50k-worth-of-water-to-haitian-gang-violence-victims.html","title":{"rendered":"Newly Born Christian Kodak Black Donates $50K Worth of Water to Haitian Gang Violence Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kodak Black is lending a significant hand to Haitians cut off from food and water, due to extreme gang violence, by sending more than 35,000 bottles of water.<\/p>\n<p>Kodak heard about the Caribbean nation&#8217;s crisis and decided to do something to help the situation, dropping $50k to get tons of bottled water shipped there from Florida, according to the rapper&#8217;s attorney,\u00a0Bradford Cohen. Kodak used cargo ships to send over alkaline water, and the labels on the bottles read &#8220;LAST&#8221; because Kodak wanted this to be the last time anyone in Haiti goes without water.<\/p>\n<p>Once the shipment reached Haiti, Kodak and his team worked with Haitian government officials to ensure the bottles reached their intended destinations. Cohen says Kodak is calling for a ceasefire in the rising gang violence that&#8217;s turning Haiti into a war zone, and the water donation is just his latest step in an ongoing effort to help the island.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to ensuring Haitians don&#8217;t go thirsty, Kodak previously donated to orphanages and food banks on the island to get folks health care. Kodak Black, whose real name is Bill Kapri, accepted Jesus as his Savior after former president Donald Trump pardoned him. The announcement from Kapri came days after Christian ministers Kevin Louidor and Annia Icart, who both attend\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kingjesusuni\/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZUtKxd71wJjmXQrhQDSSowElOdyMf8H2uWpqr36apxTWilwmTf_GeXnL1sY69DXSvo82WOBRuWvp1FJ3t7n2AA28SYO5WSmamTn6sTMnrd6mwFnodu-kWqzhqIp-htioN7WBy9aEshbcERw7A9h6ez5&amp;__tn__=kK-R\">King Jesus Universal Ministry<\/a>, prayed with the artist at a gas station in Florida.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7657\" style=\"width: 501px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/89\/2022\/09\/KodakBlack-credit-Facebook.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7657\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/89\/2022\/09\/KodakBlack-credit-Facebook-350x256.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot: Facebook\/Kodak Black<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kevin.louidor\/posts\/5999524083453382\">Facebook,\u00a0<\/a>Louidor also shared how shortly after they helped the rapper pray, God protected their lives in a horrible crash. In a video of Kapri saying the prayer, he declared to God, in part: &#8220;I pray right now that you forgive me of all of my sins, and I receive your forgiveness, and I believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sins and He rose from the dead. I accept you, Jesus, as my Lord and my Savior. Come into my heart, clean me up. Use me for your glory. I believe that if I was to die that when I wake up, I will be in your arms. In Jesus&#8217; name, I am saved. Amen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kapri, who previously\u00a0identified as a Hebrew Israelite, shared the video of his conversion in a\u00a0post on Instagram. He captioned the video, &#8220;GOD VS THE DEVIL WHO SIDE YOU ON FA THE WAR?&#8221; Kapri, 24, whose second album,\u00a0<em>Dying to Live,<\/em>\u00a0peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in 2018, was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-50405834\">sentenced to nearly four years in prison in 2019<\/a>\u00a0for making a false statement to buy a firearm. In September 2020, he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2020\/09\/22\/kodak-black-sues-federal-bureau-of-prisons-torture-religious-suppression-rabbi\/\">sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons<\/a>, claiming torture and religious suppression while at the Big Sandy maximum security prison in Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents say Kapri was transferred from a Miami prison to Big Sandy in October after he was involved in an altercation with another inmate, which resulted in the injury of a prison officer.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after he arrived at Big Sandy, Kapri alleged the guards put a &#8220;gang beating&#8221; on him in retaliation for the injury of the Miami prison guard and &#8220;flicked&#8221; his testicles during the ordeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kodak Black is lending a significant hand to Haitians cut off from food and water, due to extreme gang violence, by sending more than 35,000 bottles of water. Kodak heard about the Caribbean nation&#8217;s crisis and decided to do something to help the situation, dropping $50k to get tons of bottled water shipped there from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":7657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiring-messages"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Newly Born Christian Kodak Black Donates $50K Worth of Water to Haitian Gang Violence Victims<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kodak Black is lending a significant hand to Haitians cut off from food and water, due to extreme gang violence, by sending them water.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, 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