Minggu, 09 Oktober 2011

Angelina Jolie's Impact On Adoption & Humanitarian Causes

By Joan Sylvian


Angelina Jolie, partner to Brad Pitt, is the star of one or two blockbuster pictures. Among them Girl Interrupted and Mr. And Mrs. Smith, by accident where she met Pitt. But maybe her most well known portrayal was as the chesty Lara Croft, in the Tomb Raider films. In the shooting of the first movie, much of which was shot on location in Cambodia, Jolie came to witness the beautiful environment, immersive culture, and rampant misery of the nation. This, she says, opened her eyes and was her stepping stone into humanitarian work.

After Cambodia, Anglina Jolie took a visit to Sierra Leone and Tanzania in 2001, which was there that she first became actively concerned in humanitarian causes. The purpose of that ordained trip was to find out first hand the conditions that refugees must suffer. Angelina was so surprised that shortly after, in Aug 2001, she was delegated Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, frequently known as UNHCR.

The UNHCR helps over 20 million refugees in 120 countries around the globe. They were made to protect and protect the well-being and rights of refugees. They suspect that refugees have the right to seek asylum in another country and will actively attempt to engage states to integrate and support those refugees. So far, in only 5 decades, they have helped over 50 million folks in the world.

Angelina's contribution has considerably assisted in generating more widespread attention to this deserving cause. As a goodwill envoy, her role is to communicate to, and provide a spotlight on refugees by creating mass-media attention. Though in Jolie's case this is not just negligible. She really spends much of her own time and is truly affected by their misery. On her trip to Ecuador, Jolie wrote of the suffering, "People's lives are truly in peril "not solely in the sense that you're feeling your town is dangerous "their lives are basically being threatened and their dwellings are being burnt down."

To further increase public awareness, Jolie has released several private journals of her experiences during field visits. As well as the physical effort that Jolie contributes, her foundation with partner Brad Pitt, called the Jolie-Pitt Foundation lately donated USD$1 million to groups working in Darfur. Darfur is a region in war devastated Sudan, which Jolie has visited three times already.

Jolie now plans to spend most of her time in humanitarian efforts, showing that she splits her actress her salary three ways; a 3rd for savings, a third for living costs and a third for charity. Considering she commands a high pay packet for films, as well as product advertisements, that is equivalent to a substantial amount donated.

Jolie has two adopted youngsters, and is presently thinking of a third. Maddox, a Cambodian refugee boy she adopted in 2002, and Zahara, an Ethiopian refugee girl. She has also got a kid with Brad Pitt, named Shiloh.

Along with Pitt, Jolie has stated that she's going to continue to market and actively enter into humanitarian causes, as well as pursuing her acting ambitions.




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