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elina Jolie and Humanitarian Work
Angelina Jolie is a well-known actress [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the partner of Brad Pitt and also for her interest and keenness in humanitarian work. She said she started to be aware of humanitarian problems during the period of filming of Tomb Raider in Cambodia. She has seen the poverty-stricken Cambodia and has then enquired for more information from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees />
In a couple of months later, she has visited to a number of refugee camps from all around the world to see for herself how bad are the conditions and situations in these international trouble spots. She admitted she was very shocked at the situations during her first field trip consisting of 18 days to Tanzania and Sierra Leone.
Later then, she returned to Cambodia for two weeks and has donated $1 million to Afghan refugees in after a meeting. All of her expenses during a mission are covered by her own, and she does not mind sharing and working alongside with other volunteers during all of her missions, even if the conditions and environments are bad.
She was named a Goodwill Ambassador in 2001 for her work and interest in humanitarian work. Angelina Jolie puts her most of her efforts in field missions [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], internally displaces persons and visiting refugees in places all around the world. She even has made visits to the worse severe humanitarian crisis in the world in Tham Hin refugee camp of Thailand and Colombian refugees in Ecuador. Later on, she visited a number of facilities in Kosovo.
Another visit was to Kakuma refugee camp mainly consisted of Sudanese refugees in Kenya. Other refugee sites she went to was Namibia during her filming of Beyond Borders, Tanzania, sri Lanka, Russia, North Caucasus [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Iraq and Egypt. Her extensive visits to these refugee camps are recognized all around the world. She even went to visit detained asylum seekers from different facilities in Arizona and also a facility for unaccompanied children in Phoenix.
Her extensive visits to various parts of the globe involving in help to human kind problems have increased her experience in this area. Angelina Jolie's interest in helping people suffering from help to human kind problems has already risen to the political level and she has met senators and congressmen for a number of times. She is a regular attendee of globe Refugee Day in Washington and was a guest speaker at globe Economic Forum.
Angelina Jolie is actively promoting help to human kind problems and helps to the public. Her status as a well-known celebrity has increased the effectiveness of the promotions using the media. She has even published articles, starred in MTV and established a Jolie/Pitt Foundation for donations to Global Action for Children and Doctors without Borders.
She is widely recognized for her effort in her humanitarian work and has received several awards such as the Citizen of the World Award, Global Humanitarian Award and Freedom Award. Other than visiting those parts herself, she has donated generous sum of money to help those in need.
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