Penn Jetting Back To Haiti
By WENNSaturday, February 20, 2010
SEAN PENN is returning to Haiti this weekend (20Feb10) to do what he can to help the survivors of the 12 January (10) earthquake, which ravaged the nation, before storms cause more damage and claim more lives.
The movie star and activist was among the first celebrities to jet to Haiti to aid the relief effort and insists he can’t wait to get back.
Speaking to U.S. news show Extra just before his planned flight back to Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, the worried Oscar winner says, “We have to save Haiti.”
During his recent three-week stint in Haiti, Penn slept in a tent and survived on just a few hours of sleep a night, but a return to that hardship will be worth it if he can help get homeless Haitians to safety before the rains come.
He adds, “Relocation is, right now, the primary focus.”
And the actor wants more people to join him: “You can come to Haiti and do work if you’re a doctor or a relief worker or if you can write a cheque… Everything helps.”
Penn admits the suffering he has seen in Haiti could keep him away from Hollywood for some time - and that means he might be forced to quit a planned Three Stooges movie.
He explains, “I’m not in a very funny state of mind right now.”
The movie star’s return to Haiti comes as a legal matter hangs over him - on Friday (19Feb10), Penn was charged with criminal battery and vandalism following a violent run-in with a paparazzo in California last year (09).
