VIDEO: Angelina Jolie Sends A Message From Ecuador

Posted on Jun 21, 2010 @ 07:36AM

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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.

“We would like to share a little of her story,” Jolie began before speaking to the woman through a translator.

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“They were always living in fear... many times they had to sleep out in the bush because it was too dangerous to stay in the village and sleep in their own houses,” the translator relayed.

“When she was back in Colombia, she lost two sons... to violence.”

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The woman, who is a midwife and was kept anonymous due to security reasons, also helped deliver her daughter-in-law’s child as they were crossing the Colombia-Ecuador border two years ago. The woman said that even though she lived next to a health center, new moms would come to her to deliver their children because they trusted her more.

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“Next time, I come to you,” Angelina said. The woman countered, “I can come to you!”

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Also during the trip, Jolie stopped in at a daycare center run by the Women’s Federation of Sucumbios province. Jolie played with some of the children there, laughing as one little boy shyly turned away grinning as she offered him a toy cheeseburger.

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I hate it when people slam her for helping others.It is like slappin all the needy women, men and children in the face.no matter what her motives may be She's trying to Help and that is all that matters.

by Jeibrelle
Posted Mon, 06/21/2010 - 2:04pm

she's been doing this type of stuff for so long that I just find it hilarious when people say it's all for good publicity. Yeah, because she can't find an easier way to get publicity than this. LoL GMAB

by stonedbuzz
Posted Mon, 06/21/2010 - 1:55pm

She tries to buy a good reputation. That's not something that can be bought. That leopard has not changed her spots.

by DesigningWoman
Posted Mon, 06/21/2010 - 12:24pm

F*CK OFF ANGELINA. Only gullible housewives love her. Can't stand this fake as* b*tch. Her "Look at me I'm doing good things" face and fake laugh on camera are intolerable.

by perineum
Posted Mon, 06/21/2010 - 9:33am

meanwhile, you send Xmas, BD gifts to the "widow" and the kids at the "orphanage" in PA. Buy the latest yoga dvd by Mandy and get on that baby food diet, wear the Kate or the Rachel. hahahaha. Keep spending 500 or more a year on tabloids, fool.

by Elvie
Posted Mon, 06/21/2010 - 9:37am

Oooh, a bored housewife is ticked off, it seems. Did I push the button, cat lady? Lay off the Prozac, you're not making sense.

by perineum
Posted Mon, 06/21/2010 - 9:40am

nashvillians lose it all in floods, people in this country fight every day to feed their families in poverty, & lives in the gulf are grounded from oil spill where is she? oh that's right, she bought a house for million$ in NOLA. saint angie

by trainwrecks
Posted Mon, 06/21/2010 - 8:49am

Jolie donates hundreds of thousands to SOS some of which she directly donated to the U.S. chapter for orphans, 5 million to "Make It Right" by Brad Pitt in NOLA. 1 million to hospital in Spingfield, MO. by Jolie/Pitt, etc.

by Elvie
Posted Mon, 06/21/2010 - 9:34am