The Monaco Charity Film Festival (MCFF) is devoted to building awareness and helping raise funds for charity organizations around the world that protect and care for today’s children. Mr. Vicente-Andres Zaragoza founded this innovate event to use the power of film to help such worthy causes. This year, the festival exemplifies its motto “The hands that give will never be empty” by highlighting the work of two organizations that safeguard the rights of the child: Virlanie and ECPAT Monaco. The event lasted from May 5 to 11 and closed with a Gala Dinner and spectacle show that raised money for its beneficiaries.
Virlanie is one of the largest private child caring institutions in Manila, Phillipines that cares for abused, abandoned, and orphaned children. It has already helped 12,000 children in the last 18 year. In 2009, it helped 1,200 street children. In the crusade to assist Virlanie, MCFF has already raised enough money to buy a house that will be used as a child-abuse recovery orphanage.
ECPAT Monaco is dedicated to ending child prostitution, child pornography, and the trafficking of children for sexual purposes. Since its creation in 1990, the ECPAT network has brought together over 75 countries in the fight to end this child abuse. MCFF joins the fight this year with the money and awareness it is in the process of raising.
For more information on MCFF and its role in aiding charity causes, visit http://www.monacofilmfestival.de/
