Two-Time Academy Award winning actor Sean Penn will receive the "Hollywood Humanitarian Award" for his work in Haiti, the Hollywood Film Festival and Starz' Hollywood Awards announced on Wednesday.
Following January's devastating earthquake, Penn founded the J/P Haitian Relief Organization which focuses on bringing medical aid and protection to the impecunious country. actually, the actor has spent a great deal of the year in Haiti nursing to refugees at the Petionville Camp that he manages.
Penn was what's more full of life in diverse New Orleans' salvage labors subsequent Hurricane Katrina in 2006.
"It is an tribute to know the stirring humanitarian labors that Penn and his J/P Haitian Relief Organization have been given that to the large folks of Haiti," Carlos de Abreu, Founder and Executive Director of the Hollywood Film Festival, told in a argument.
Anterior Receivers of the award admit director of Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos, Father Rick Frechette, Nobel Peace Prize Receiver and President of East Timor, Dr. Jose Ramos Horta, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Ms. Jody Williams.
A festive observance will go on at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on October 25, 2010.
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