Owner of La P’tite Folie and Le Di-Vin Wine Bar, Virginie Brouard is hosting a charity screening event this week to highlight her charity work in Ethiopia.
She will talk about her personal experiences of working with refugee children in Ethiopia on 30 November 2011 with a viewing of the film “Live & Become” at the French Institute, followed by drinks and nibbles at Le Di-Vin Wine Bar.
Virginie has been involved with ‘The Daughters of Charity’ for some time:-“I sponsor 800 orphans staying at orphanages of “The Daughters of Charity” in the north of Ethiopia. It costs £60 per year per child to get one meal a day. Those children are orphans due to poverty, illness, war…It is not long since the war with Eritrea was finished.
Ethiopia is home to nearly 5 million orphans..unfortunately the government is not doing much for those children simply because there is no money at all. And according to the nuns, all the sponsors from the U.S and Europe are reducing their donations due to the global economic climate…
So far I have given them just under £15,000, most of it my own personal funds. I plan to go back around February/March time.”
