Sean Penn's charity for Haiti is to receive US$8.75 million
Dominican Today, 17 March 2013
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Port-au-Prince.- US actor Sean Penn has agreed a deal with the Haitian government and the World Bank to get cash to fund a 16-month relief project to move approximately 14,000 homeless victims of the natural disaster off of private golf course Petionville country club, which they have been occupying for the past three years.
Penn will use the money to build 45 new housing units in the Delmas 32 neighbourhood and also to subsidise rent costs. If everything goes to schedule then the first people could be in the new properties by early 2014.
As well as the new housing, the grant will also be used by his J/P Haitian Relief Organization (J/P HRO) to support his "Protection" team which aims to provide assistance to vulnerable families and prevent domestic abuse in the local community.
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