In 2001 Mel donated his sword from Braveheart for UNICEF´s African Organization that works to prevent HIV transmission from mothers to newborns.
In 2002 Gibson made a large donation to his former acting school, NIDA ($1,000,000). In a recent interview he said. "I got a really good kick-off from that place and learned a lot of really valuable lessons and they were struggling to make the place better and improve it. So they just asked could I be the front man for it and I asked what they needed and just decide to get in on the act and be part of giving back to it, because it really has stood me in good stead."
Over the years Mel has lent his image to America´s libraries to promote reading and to Earthjustice to promote environmental awareness.
He has also made monetary donations to battered women´s shelters and to policemen´s orphans.
Mel and his wife, Robyn, volunteer work in Malibu, California, including organizing a youth club and raising money for local schools.
In October 2004, Mel Gibson donated 10,000,000$ to Mattel Hospital and Cedars Sinai Medical Center (California). This money will pay the treatment of sick children from the poorer countries of the world that lack appropriate medical technology.
On 5 June 2005 Mel Gibson and his fellow Australian stars, Geoffrey Rush and Russell Crowe, decided to help a Sydney theatre company.
The trio donated $600,000 to a renovation fund for Sydney's Company B Belvoir St Theatre.
In October (2005), Mel Gibson met with Mexican President Vicente Fox and donated US$1 million to help Mexico recover from Hurricane Stan.
Fox's office said Gibson asked to meet with Fox because he wanted to help after Hurricane Stan hit the Gulf state of Veracruz, where the actor was filming Apocalypto.
Stan lashed Central America and Mexico with days of relentless rain from October 1, triggering floods and landslides which led to more than 2,000 deaths in hardest-hit Guatemala and 125 in El Salvador, Mexico and Nicaragua.
In 2006 Mel Gibson, about to wrap up the filming of his Mayan epic, "Apocalypto," in the jungles of Mexico's Veracruz state, donated money to build houses for poor people in the region.
The director-actor donated the money through the Rotary Club and Mexico's family welfare agency.
In December, the premiere of "Apocalypto" benefited American Indian health organizations and charities. Gibson matched the proceeds.
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