Slumdog Millionaire team donates $900K to help Mumbai slum kids The team behind the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire has fulfilled an earlier pledge to help the poor children living in Mumbai's slums.
The filmmakers announced Thursday they are donating $900,000 to the international development charity Plan, which has been working in India for almost three decades. The goal is to help improve help the lives of 5,000 children living in Mumbai slum communities over the next five years, including through education initiatives and training in good hygiene and sanitation. "Having benefitted so much from the hospitality of the people of Mumbai, it is only right that some of the success of the movie be plowed back into the city in areas where it is needed most and where it can make a real difference to some lives," Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire's U.K. director, said in a statement. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2009/04/16/slumdog-donation-charity-kids.html
