Oxfam Charity Gala at Dubai International Film Festival

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Oxfam Charity Gala at Dubai International Film Festival. Hollywood stars Mark Ruffalo, Naomie Harris and other global celebrities from the world of cinema gather to help raise funds for Syria refugees during the Dubai Cares and Oxfam Charity Gala at Dubai International Film Festival. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00This event, which two years ago was such a seminal moment in philanthropy, when Dubai

00:16turned around and gave a million dollars for Pakistan's rehabilitation and flood relief.

00:20And this year it's about Syria, the 2.2 billion refugees, the amount of money you raise, no

00:26amount of money you raise is going to be enough.

00:28This is the place to come because I have actually seen the remarkable philanthropy of people

00:32out here.

00:33I really think that Dubai Cares and Oxfam just nail it every single time.

00:36I always put myself in the donor's place and say, what is it that I want to get from this?

00:42And it's not, they're giving, but they should be getting something.

00:45And if I can understand that if the people who ask me for money assure me this, an intangible

00:50something, then I will give.

00:53You can never appeal to people's wallets to give.

00:55You have to appeal to their hearts.

00:57And everyone is born with a heart and everyone wants to give.

01:00When Shivani asked me to come and I said, definitely this year, last year I was supposed

01:07to come for them.

01:08I couldn't.

01:09I have to auction one painting out there.

01:12And hopefully I can do a good job and get them enough money for a good cause.

01:18It means so much to me because also I'm representing Aeon and Aeon has given a lot of prizes tonight

01:23or things to auction off, which hopefully are going to raise a lot of money.

01:26And I'm really proud of that.

01:27I'm proud to be part of a franchise that's so supportive of charity and of Oxfam because

01:32they have for many, many years and that means a lot to me.

01:34I'm proud that we can use the celebrity in this and the Oxfam, I mean the Dubai Film

01:40Festival to raise the money to help the two million refugees that have been displaced

01:45from the Syrian conflagration.

01:47I'm deeply honored that I was asked to be here to host and to get people open to giving

01:55to this really important event.

01:57Oxfam has a really shallow overhead.

01:59Great deal of their money goes directly into helping people, doing it in a sustainable

02:04way.

02:05A lot of it is empowering people to be able to take care of themselves.

02:10It's the old fish in the pole story.

02:12What they're going to do tonight will go into effect immediately tomorrow.

02:15They're already established there and they're already working there.

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