Chinese movie star Jet Li is helping with reconstruction efforts following an earthquake last month in Myanmar.
Jet Li (left) speaks to the press at a shelter for typhoon victims in Taiwan in 2009. The Chinese action star is well known for his charity work. AFP PHOTO
The Expendables star’s One Foundation charity will help rebuild three schools destroyed during the 6.8-magnitude earthquake, which killed at least 11 people and injured 70 more in central Myanmar on Nov 11.
“We’re still discussing exactly how we’re going to provide support,” Jiang Yili, director-general of the charity’s Rescue Alliance, told The Irrawaddy.
“We hope we can effectively help those children.”
One Foundation’s Rescue Alliance, which says it is the biggest nonprofit national rescue organisation in China, was the first foreign rescue team to arrive at the scene of the earthquake, in which thousands of people lost their homes.
“Schools are Myanmar’s best buildings, but they have been seriously damaged,” Jiang Yili wrote on his official Xinlang microblog during the group’s rescue mission last month.