Antonio Banderas funds college scholarships

Malaga –  Antonio Banderas's Lagrimas y Favores (Tears and Favors) Foundation has donated 130,000 euros ($188,000) for college scholarships, aid for cancer victims, and to help people currently down and out from the economic crisis.

The actor endowed Monday his native Malaga with 75,000 euros ($108,000) in scholarships to enable students to take postgraduate courses at universities in the United States and Canada.

Accompanied by his wife, actress Melanie Griffith, he has also gave 25,000 euros ($36,000) to the Cancer Care Association, or Cudeca, and 30,000 euros ($43,000) to the Catholic charity Caritas.

"Too many people are calling on churches these days needing help, they need some kind of support because the situation is maybe a lot worse than we think," Banderas said.

"The whole world," he said, is in "a very tough, very deep crisis that is causing suffering to lot of people."

"We're not going to fix the problems of the whole world, but we have a great belief in the work the foundation is doing," the actor said.

Banderas said that these funds have been collected over a year through such events as the "Starlite" benefit gala held last summer in the nearby city of Marbella, with which the foundation of U.S. actress Eva Longoria also collaborated.

Banderas' Lagrimas y Favores Foundation is named after an Andalusian devotion to the Virgin Mary known as Our Lady of Tears and Favors.

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