Celebrities
Charities
Causes
Adoption, Fostering, Orphans, AIDS, Children, Human Rights, Poverty, Refugees
June 18, 2009 by Tim Saunders
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have donated $1 million to help refugees in Pakistan.
According to People.com, the celebrity couple made the donation through their Jolie-Pitt Foundation, which they established to assist with humanitarian crises around the world.
People.com reports that the head of the UNHCR, António Guterres, thanked the foundation for its assistance, calling Pakistan’s plight “the most challenging humanitarian crisis of the past decade.” More than 2 million people are currently displaced in the country.
Angelina Jolie initially created the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation (MJP) for the conservation of Cambodia’s endangered Cardamom Mountains’ northern territory. As more resources became available, MJP’s operations expanded into other areas such as reforestation, community protected area, park management and humanitarian crises. In 2007, the organization changed its name to Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation and now donates to those in need around the world.
Liked this? Get future articles by
4 comments
MJP stories always inspire and give me hope and help balance all the terrible news I read in the newspapers everyday. Please keep giving hope to millions and show there is still a great deal of humanity in the world.
I wish you would also bring attention to the plight of the Tamil refugees in Sri Lanka who are living in horrible conditions; especially pregnant women, the elderly and children. Please show them that the world cares and there is hope for them. Due to world politics, they have lost all hope in humanity in the world. Please help restore faith in humanity to these refugees.
Thank you and God Bless.
On behalf of all my Pakistani brothers & sisters I would like to say thank you to Angelina Jolie for helping our displaced people in such time of crisis. It is people likeyou who make this world a better place to live. God bless you!
Keep up the great work.
I Thank you for caring, understanding and supporting the displaced people of Swat Valley, Pakistan. Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Zindabad, we love you!
I like to thank jolie and pitt for the donation to Pakistani displced people. You are really kind hearted and bless for the whole world. I love you. May you live long
God bless you.
4 months ago