Billy Corgan, the lead singer of Smashing Pumpkins has been honoured by Illnois State Crime Commission and presented with the Jesse White Award for the creation of a Wrestling Outreach project for children in Chicago.
The program ‘Resistance Pro’ was set up in 2011 by brothers Gabriel Baron, Jacques Baron and Sean “C. Red” Young, Corgan was later bought on board as the Creative Director. The mission statement for Resistance Pro is ‘to motivate students to maintain a positive attitude in and out of school, to follow their dreams, be productive members of society and have a positive outlook on life!’
Corgan and the founding members of Resistance Pro were honoured in a ceremony on the 18th June. Corgan says of the Outreach program:
‘RPro POP represents everything that RESISTANCE Pro stands for: community, team work, erasing boundaries that separate us as people, reaching out to lend a hand to those who need a little extra love in life.’
For more information on the work Resistance Pro do, visit the website here
