Academy
Award-winning actress Mira Sorvino (left) receives a warm welcome from
Supagon Noja and children at Pattaya’s Child Protection & Development
Center.
Elfi Seitz
Academy Award-winning actress Mira Sorvino, in Thailand
to film a movie about enslaved children, heard heart-felt, real-life stories
when she visited Pattaya’s Child Protection & Development Center March 25.
Sorvino, who won the best supporting actress Oscar in
1995 for her role in “Mighty Aphrodite,” has been a United Nations Drugs and
Crime Goodwill Ambassador to Combat Human Trafficking since 2009.
CPDC Director Supagon Noja, Thailand director of the
Human Help Network Radchada Chomjinda and volunteers welcomed Sorvino to the
shelter where she played and talked with children for about four hours.
Sorvino studied Far Eastern languages and literature at
Harvard University and speaks fluent Mandarin and French. The mother of
three children is affiliated with Amnesty International and has been among
the many Hollywood celebrities calling for U.N. action in Darfur.
Before leaving CPDC, the actress promised to return soon.
