http://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/1253-terry-george en-us 40 The latest news about celebrity good deeds and charity involvement Actress Jennifer Connelly has appeared in a new commercial on US television, highlighting the need to provide clean drinking water to millions of people around the world.</p> <p>The star of films such as <em>Blood Diamond</em> and <em>Dark Water</em> joined Terry George &#8211; director of <em>Hotel Rwanda</em> &#8211; to make the Public Service Announcement for Charity:Water, an organization that aims to bring clean and safe water into impoverished communities.</p> <p>&#8220;We wanted to bring the harsh reality we saw in Africa home to our friends,&#8221; said advert creator Nigel Lythgoe. &#8220;The reality that millions of women and children walk miles each day to collect murky green water from swamps. Water that kills kids. We wanted to put an end to it.&#8221; <p><a href="/news/695-jennifer-connelly-makes-her-children-drink-bad-water-for-charity-ad">Read more</a></p> Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:50:35 +0000 urn:uuid:http://www.looktothestars.org/news/695 http://www.looktothestars.org/news/695-jennifer-connelly-makes-her-children-drink-bad-water-for-charity-ad Jennifer Connelly Terry George charity:water Celebrity Charity Philanthropy Giving Poverty Water