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UNHCR
Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie with internally displaced children in
Darfur. Jolie and actor Brad Pitt have donated US$1 million to UNHCR and
two other organisations working in Darfur. UNHCR/R.Ek
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ANGELINA
JOLIE, BRAD PITT GIVE US$1 MILLION TO UNHCR AND TWO NGOs WORKING IN DARFUR: 02/6/2007 (MaximsNews.com,
U.N.)
UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com@
U.N./ - 02
June 2007 –
Angelina
Jolie, UNHCR's Goodwill Ambassador, and actor Brad Pitt have donated US$1
million to help the people affected by the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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"The
donation from the Jolie-Pitt Foundation will go to three agencies playing
key roles in Darfur and neighbouring Chad: the UN refugee agency; the
International Rescue Committee and the international non-governmental
organization, SOS Children's Villages," said UNHCR in a statement last
month.
All
three agencies are active in providing life-saving humanitarian assistance
to the more than two million people displaced within Darfur and the 240,000
refugees from Darfur living in camps in eastern Chad.
Jolie
has visited the region three times.
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"This
generous donation comes just months after Angelina Jolie made a personal visit
to a refugee camp in Chad and it shows, once again, her and Brad Pitts'
commitment to helping refugees and the displaced," said Michel Gabaudan,
UNHCR's regional representative for the United States and the Caribbean.
"As
Goodwill Ambassador, Jolie's continued support of UNHCR and those we seek to
help is a powerful force in ensuring they are not forgotten," said
Gabaudan.
President
of the International Rescue Committee, George Rupp, said, "This donation
will make a real difference in the lives of thousands of vulnerable people. We
are grateful to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt for remembering them."
During
her recent visit to the Oure-Cassoni camp she said she was struck by the sense
of hope she encountered and by the widespread desire for peace-keepers to be
deployed in eastern Chad.
It
was in Oure-Cassoni where Jolie met staff working for SOS Children's Villages,
who are providing psychological assistance to traumatized children.
"The
children benefit enormously from the therapy," said Yolanda van den Broek,
project leader of the Emergency Relief Programme of SOS Children's Villages in
Chad.
"Children
who at first did not speak, did not eat and who were isolated in their own
worlds, are now playing happily and are able to interact with others," she
said.
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