Sean Penn visited Cuban camp in Haiti
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- 04 / 18 / 2010
The plastic artist Alexis Leyva Machado (Kcho), who heads the brigade made up by painters, circus artists, musicians and humorists commented to Cubadebate that Sean Penn said he felt admiration for the solidarity of Cuba towards the people of Haiti, and he also expressed his desire to work projects together with the Cuban brigade members.
Sean Penn, one of the few Hollywood actors that have become directly involved in the movement of the Caribbean country, reached Port-au-Prince a week after the earthquake and has only left the island in few occasions for meetings in the United States that are related to reconstruction and for the Oscar ceremony.
The 49-years old actor, who has declared that his intention is to remain in Haiti as much time as he can, has formed an association in this island, the Jenkins-Penn Haiti Relief Organization, that is in charge of supplying provisions to a camp in which are sheltered a little more than 45 000 people. There, Penn works together with other volunteers that provide the Haitians with medicines, water filters and food.
The actor visited Cuba at the end of October 2009 and together with Kcho and his brigade members he toured the Isle of Youth a municipality around 150 kilometers from Havana, that was one of the more affected places by hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008.
Source: Cubadebate and Cubarte
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