Angelina Jolie Thanks Somali Refugees For Making Her ‘A Better Mother’
Posted on Oct 04, 2011 @ 10:00AM - 2 comments
Angelina Jolie has become a "better mother" thanks to Somali refugees.
The 36-year-old actress – who raises six children, Maddox, 10, Pax, seven, Zahara, six, Shiloh, five and three-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne with partner Brad Pitt – thanked the Switzerland-based Yemen Society for Humanitarian Solidarity for allowing her to spend time with the refugees and praised them for helping her become a good person and parent.
A Distraught Angelina Jolie Talks With Refugees In Turkey
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VIDEO: Angelina Jolie Sends A Message From Ecuador
Posted on Jun 21, 2010 @ 07:36AM - 12 comments
Angelina Jolie has been on a humanitarian trip to Ecuador and in honor of World Refugee Day, the actress sent out a special video message that included an interview she did with a local woman who escaped from violence-torn Colombia.
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Jolie, who is a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and Goodwill Ambassador, went to Ecuador - which borders Colombia - eight years ago. At the time, there were 300 registered refugees. Today, there are 50,000 and over 100,000 identified. In the video, she spoke to one woman who shared her tale of escape.
PHOTOS: Angelina Jolie And Brad Pitt Visit Refugees In Bosnia
Posted on Apr 05, 2010 @ 09:02AM - 4 comments
Angelina Jolie took a break from her busy schedule filming the upcoming thriller, The Tourist, to carry on her good work as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador.
PHOTOS: Brad And Angelina In Bosnia
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Taking partner Brad Pitt along for the ride Angelina stopped by a refugee camp in war torn Bosnia on Monday.
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PHOTOS: Angelina Visits Children At A Haitian Hospital
Brad and Angelina are in the Eastern European enclave to visit with, and bring attention to the plight of, the thousands of people who have been displaced from their homes as a result of the war in the country.
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Even though the war ended 15-years ago many of the refugee’s homes have not yet been rebuilt since they were evacuated, and 7,000 are living in refugee centers, while the other 110,000 live with relatives or in rented housing.
Angelina Jolie Visits Haitian Refugees And Meets With Dominican President
Posted on Feb 08, 2010 @ 06:45PM - 26 comments
Angelina Jolie jetted off to the Dominican Republic Monday following her short stop in Miami where she joined Brad Pitt and eldest son Maddox to cheer on the New Orleans Saints to victory in the Super Bowl.
PHOTOS: Angelina Meets With The President Of The Dominican Republic
Jolie visited with Haitian children that are in the Dominican Republic to receive medical treatment following the devastating 7.0 earthquake that hit their country on January 12th, killing more than 200,000 people.
Brad And Angelina Rush To Aid Haitian Quake Victims
Angelina toured the pediatric wing of Dario Contreras Hospital in Santa Domingo with it’s director Hector Quezada and Gonzalo Vargas Llosa, the son of famed Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa.
Angelina also met with the President of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernandez at the presidential National Palace.
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It is reported that Jolie, who serves as a goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and UNICEF, will travel to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Tuesday.
Angelina, along with partner Brad Pitt, where among the first in Hollywood to offer their support to the ravaged country, donating $1million to Haiti earthquake relief efforts.
Angelina Jolie: I Can't Imagine My Kids Living Through War
Posted on Jun 18, 2009 @ 11:21PM - Add a comment
In an exclusive interview Thursday night on Anderson Cooper 360, Angelina Jolie, the UN High Commission on Refugees Goodwill Ambassador, spoke emotionally about the horrors of war but also about the joys she's experiencing with her own six kids.
In one particularly emotional segment, Jolie recalled an eight-year old girl she met in Tanzania who saw her family killed in front of her. "My son is almost eight....I can't imagine if something happened to my family, him grabbing his little brother and running by himself somewhere, but that's what she did. She grabbed her little brother and ran through the jungle."
The story had an exceptionally happy ending compared to what happens to most of the refugees Angelie is determined to help.
On a much lighter note, Cooper asked how she was going to celebrate the "bunch of brthdays" she has coming up with the kids. Maddox will be eight on August 5, and twins Knox and Vivienne will turn one on July 12.
"We have so many kids, we have year round birthdays," she laughed, without ever mentioning daddy Brad Pitt by name. "We do love children."
