Charitable Work and Causes
Gael is heavily involved in 3 different charities and 5 different causes, the most prominent of which include Oxfam, a confederation comprised of many organizations devoted to finding solutions to poverty and injustice around the world. Bernal is also involved with the Greenpeace Detox Campaign, which is a movement against pollution.
Oxfam's Website Here |
WOLA AwardGael García Bernal helped to create the organization and film festival Ambulante A.C., which works to bring documentary films to places where they are rarely shown, and helped to create the Amnesty International Short Documentary Series Los Invisibles. For this work, he was awarded the Washington Office on Latin America's Human Rights Award in 2011.
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Actor Gael García Bernal meets Syrian refugees in Jordan with OxfamOxfam Global Ambassador and Gael García Bernal has taken time out from filming on location in Jordan to meet Syrian refugees. He visited refugee families living in the outskirts of the capital Amman, with the international aid agency Oxfam. Bernal filmed in Jordan in mid-June of 2013 for his film, Rosewater, directed by The Daily Show's Jon Stewart.Bernal is now calling on world leaders to find an urgent solution to the Syria crisis.
Bernal said: "For more than two and a half years, Syrians have been fleeing from the deadly conflict in their home country, where an average of at least 5,000 people are killed every month. Full Story Here |
Greenpeace Detox CampaignGael Garcia Bernal invites you to join Greenpeace's global Detox campaign. Gael is wearing a specially commissioned t-shirt created by Brazilian designer and entrepreneur Oskar Metsavaht, bearing the message “Detox our future, Clean our water.”
More about the program Here |
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Works Cited
- "Gael Garcia Bernal: Charity Work & Causes." Look to the Stars The World of Celebrity Giving. Look to the Stars. Web. 20 Apr. 2015.
- "The WOLA Human Rights Awards Ceremony and Benefit Gala." The WOLA Human Rights Awards Ceremony and Benefit Gala. Washington Office on Latin America. Web. 20 Apr. 2015.
- "Actor Gael García Bernal Meets Syrian Refugees in Jordan with Oxfam | Blogs | Oxfam GB." Oxfam GB. 13 Apr. 2013. Web. 20 Apr. 2015.