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Filmmaker Hassan Fat’hi has donated his recent cash prize of 100 million rials (about $6,666) to the famine-stricken children of Somalia.
Accompnied
by an Iranian actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mahtab Keramati,
Fat’hi appeared at the office of UNICEF Deputy Representative Mohamed el
Munir Safieldin and donated his prize, the Persian service of MNA
reported on Saturday.
Fat’hi took the best
director award for “Reverse Gear” at the first edition of the Jam-e-Jam
Festival of Television Productions in Tehran on December 30.
 Filmmaker Hassan Fat’hi (R) shakes hands with UNICEF Deputy Representative Mohamed el Munir Safieldin in Tehran on January 6, 2012 before donating a cash prize he won at the Jam-e-Jam Festival of Television Productions to the famine-stricken children of Somalia. |
The
filmmaker expressed his regret over the disaster that Somalia has been
through and hoped that all artists across the world would feel a sense
of responsibility for the pain experienced by the people of Somalia and
especially the children
Fat’hi had plans to
make a movie on the children of Somalia last year. He also carried out
research for a year but the movie was never made due to financial
problems. “However, I decided to donate the first prize I receive to the
children of Somalia,” he said.
Safieldin
expressed his thanks to Fat’hi and said, “UNICEF praises such acts,
which show solidarity with children. We believe all children are
important and should enjoy the same rights every where in the world”.
On
July 20, the United Nations declared a famine in two regions of
southern Somalia owing to the worst drought in decades, and appealed for
urgent resources to assist millions of people in desperate need of
help.
Iran has been sending several shipments of humanitarian to Somalia over the past months.