Sean Penn’s Haiti work earns humanitarian prize

FILE - In this April 10, 2010 file photo, U.S. actor
 Sean Penn carries the belongings of a person
displaced by the earthquake as people are relocated
 from the Petion ville Golf Club to a new camp,
Corail-Cesselesse, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Penn
is being honored by a group of Nobel laureates
for his relief work in Haiti following the
country's devastating January 2010 earthquake.
 Penn is to receive the 2012 Peace Summit Award
at the 12th World Summit of Nobel Peace
Laureates at an event in Chicago in April 2012
and is expected to draw such luminaries
as Poland's Lech Walesa and the Dalai Lama.
 (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Actor Sean Penn is being honored by a group of Nobel laureates for his relief work in Haiti following the country’s devastating January 2010 earthquake.

Penn is to receive the 2012 Peace Summit Award at the 12th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. The event will be held in Chicago next month and is expected to draw such luminaries as Poland’s Lech Walesa and the Dalai Lama.
Penn arrived shortly after Haiti’s quake and established an aid organization now known as J/P Haitian Relief Organization. The group has provided schools, medical care and housing to thousands of people displaced by the quake.
The actor issued a statement Monday calling the award an “extraordinary honor.”
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