Christian Bale offered a closer look at his long-standing project to build a village to house foster siblings so the system doesn’t separate them.
Bale, 50, has been working in his California town since the birth of his daughter in 2005, when he was “shocked and angry” to discover how many children were in care in the state.
The actor, who got his big break at age 12 on Empire of the Sun, plans to build 12 homes and two studio apartments and a 7,000-square-foot community center.
Bale intends for the two studio apartments to help foster children transition to independent living as they grow into adulthood.
Famous for his roles in American Psycho and Christopher Nolan’s Batman series, Bale plans to complete construction of his community by 2025.
Christian Bale offered a closer look at his long-standing project to build a village to house foster siblings so the system doesn’t separate them.
Bale, 50 (pictured with his wife, Sibi Blazic, 53) has been working in his California town since the birth of his daughter in 2005, when he was “stunned and angry” to discover how many children were in care. in the state.
The actor, who got his big break at age 12 in Empire of the Sun, plans to build 12 hours and two studio apartments and a 7,000-square-foot community center.
The project has an estimated cost of $22 million and is located next to a park in Palmdale, about 60 miles from Los Angeles.
Bale is a co-founder of an organization called Together California, which is coordinating the development.
The organization’s project is being developed under the leadership of CEO Tim McCormick and Bale’s co-founder, Dr. Eric Esrailian of UCLA.
He called the village, which is the first of its kind in the state, “something absolutely new, totally transformative and something completely necessary.”
At an event in Antelope Valley yesterday, Bale was with his wife, Sibi, and a tight-knit group of elected officials and supporters to break ground on the plan.
He presented the draft of the project, which has a single objective: to keep siblings in the foster care system together under one roof.
“Imagine the absolute pain and trauma of losing your parents or being torn away from them, and then losing your brothers and sisters, that’s no way to treat children,” Bale said at the event.
‘And so, we will be the center for that. I hope that this town is the first of many, and I hope that people, Californians and Angelenos, know how to join us to open their eyes to what is happening right under our noses.
“These are our children and we must help them.”
Bale intends for the two studio apartments to help foster children transition to independent living as they grow into adulthood.
The project has an estimated cost of $22 million and is located next to a park in Palmdale, about 60 miles from Los Angeles.
Bale is co-founder of an organization called Together California, which coordinates the development
The Oscar winner, 50, was technically born in Haverfordwest, Wales, but became a naturalized US citizen in 2014 and has lived in Los Angeles since 1992.
Christian first found fame at age 13 playing upper-middle-class British schoolboy James ‘Jim’ Graham, locked up in a Chinese internment camp in Steven Spielberg’s 1987 war film Empire of the Sun.
He has been married to Sibi Blazic for 24 years and they share two children: Emmeline Bale, 18, and Joseph Bale, 9.