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Nobel Laureates Honor Actor and Humanitarian Sean Penn
[30-03-2012] |
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 Humanitarians are people
who improve the lives of others.
When a powerful 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti back in 2010, millions of humanitarians
around the world donated their time and money
to help the devastated country. Famous Hollywood actor Sean Penn was one of
them.
Immediately after the January
12 earthquake, the two-time Academy award winner booked two planes and flew to Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s
capital, with doctors and
medical supplies.
He soon founded the J/P Haitian Relief
OrganizationJ/P 아이티 난민 구호 기구, which focuses on delivering medicine and supplies and
developing education and
housing facilities. It also distributed food and set
up water purification systems.
The organization manages two camps that house more than 50,000 displaced people.
 Last
week, it was announced that Penn will be honored by a group of
Nobel laureates for his relief work in Haiti. Penn
will receive the 2012 Peace Summit Award at the 12th World Summit
of Nobel Peace Laureates in Chicago, in the U.S., next month. The
award honors a cultural or entertainment
personality who has promoted peace and stood
up for human rights. Eleven Nobel
Peace Prize winners, including the Dalai Lama,
are expected to attend the three-day event.
Penn called the award “an extraordinary honor in an
extraordinary moment on Earth.” “I’m
thrilled to receive this tribute and to represent it to the youth of Haiti, the strong
women of Haiti, and of the world,” he said. Although Haiti is a country
where he is rarely recognized, he promised to
stay there because he knows the impact he was made in the
past two years. “There’s
no end point,” he said. “This
is where I’ll be when I’m not working, for the rest of my life.”
 This isn’t
the first time that Penn has been honored for his humanitarian work.
Back in 2010, Penn was awarded the Hollywood Humanitarian Award for
his work in New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,
which killed 1,836 people and destroyed hundreds of thousands
of houses. Penn was photographed paddling a boat down the water-logged streets of New
Orleans and rescuing people who were stranded.
Thank you for your hard work to make the world a better place, Mr.
Penn! Please keep helping people in need! |
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