James Hetfield on Metallica’s All Within My Hands foundation: “The corniest saying ‘it’s better to give than receive’ is so true”
Metallica’s All Within My Hands foundation puts out a lot of positivity into the world, and James Hetfield has been sharing his pride in the difference it continues to make.
Named after the band’s track from their St. Anger album, the foundation was formed in 2017 with a mission to create sustainable communities by supporting workforce education, the fight against hunger, and other critical local services.
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Just to name a few examples, the foundation has so far provided $8 million in grants for a variety of career and technical education programmes, support and donations for food banks, and has donated a total of $550,000 to fire relief efforts in response to the wildfires that have become an annual occurrence in California.
Speaking about the foundation on the Metallica Report podcast, Hetfield says (via Blabbermouth), “There’s not really a better feeling in this world than helping someone else and doing it without telling [people] about it. There is something fantastic about that. It goes against everything that humans are – ‘I need this. You give me that. I need to take this.’
“Especially growing up in a band that was struggling, fighting for the only towel in the motel, or whatever it is, or ‘there’s a can of food there. I better get mine or else.’ Just that sparseness mentality and having that key unlock it to be completely the opposite. Out of everything you’ve learned, despite everything I’ve learned, the corniest saying ‘it’s better to give than receive’ is so true.”
He later adds, “For me, blue-collar work we do, obviously the disaster relief is important, and that’s kind of a no-brainer, but the blue-collar work, the ability to sponsor people into restarting their life or giving them sense of hope, giving them a trade that they can take anywhere in the world and feel that they are worthy…
“You don’t take the time every day to realise that, ‘Wow, someone built that. Someone built this couch we’re sitting on.’ I mean, I couldn’t do it. Someone else has taken the time to learn and how to do it. And it makes our lives better.”
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