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Iranian filmmaker Hassan Fat’hi donates cash prize to children of Somalia

TEHRAN,Jan.8(MNA) -- Iranian filmmaker Hassan Fat’hi 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. 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. 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.

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