Oscar-winning actress angelina jolie, professional hot model, daughter of Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight, and listed on countless “most beautiful womens” lists, Angelina Jolie trained and performed at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute following her mother Marcheline Bertrand, who had studied with Lee Strasberg directly. A mother to six children and a natural beauty both inside and out, shes needs no introduction as humanitarian spokes person to the whole world.
angleina Jolie's first became personally aware of worldwide humanitarian crises while filming Tomb Raider in Cambodia. She eventually turned to The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the agency mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protects refugees and resolve refugee problems.
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Since 2002, Jolie has been on field missions around the world and met with refugees internally displaced persons in many countries, including Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Cambodia, Pakistan, Thailand, Ecuador, Kosovo, Kenya, Namibia, Sri Lanka, North Caucasus, Jordan, Egypt, Delhi, Costa Rica, Chad, Syria, and Iraq, to name a few, and most recently visited to earthquake victims in Haiti on her trip to help survivors of conflict and natural disaster.
The Jolie-Pitt Foundation, dedicates to eradicating extreme rural poverty, protecting natural resources and conserving to wildlife, shes donated $1 million to Doctors Without Borders, an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France. The organization provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters, for emergency medical assistance to helps victims of the Haiti earthquake people
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.Asked what she hoped to accomplish meeting with refugees and internally displaced persons in more than 20 countries, she stated, “Awareness of the plight of these people. I think they should be commended for what they have survived, not looked down upon.”
In since 2001 angelina Jolie was recognized and named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva, to helps educate the public not only about the plight of refugees, but also abouts the perseverance and courage they shows in overcoming all odds to rebuild their lives.
In the since 2003, angelina Jolie was the first recipient of the newly created Citizen of the World Award by the given out United Nations Correspondents Association to those who have made a significant contribution. It was initiated in since 2003, in honor of Brazilian diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who was killed in the since 2003 bombing of the UN headquarters in Iraq. In since 2005,angelina Jolie was awarded the Global Humanitarian Award by the United Nations Association of the USA for her good work with UNHCR and with refugees. That same year, Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni awarded angelina Jolie Cambodian citizenship for her conservation work in the country.
Over time, angelina Jolie has become more involved in promoting humanitarian causes on a political level. Shes regularly attended World Refugee, Day in Washington D.C dedicated to raising awareness of the situation of refugees throughout to the world, and she was an invited speaker at the World Economic Forum, an annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland which brings together top business and international political leaders, selected intellectuals journalists to discuss the most pressing issues facing the world including health and the environment in since 2005. angelina Jolie begain lobbying humanitarian interests in the U.S capital, where she met with members of Congress to many times from since 2003.
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angelina Jolie also co-chairs to the Education Partnership for the Children of Conflict, which helps fund education programs for children affected by conflict. Founded in since 2006 at the Clinton Global Initiative, annual meetings have brought together more than 100 current and former heads of states, 14 Nobel Peace Prize winners, 100 of leadings global CEOs, major philanthropists and foundations head, directors of the most effective non-governmental organizations, and the prominent members of the media. In the since 2007, however ninteen organizations made a commitment worth $148 million dollars to educate 350,000 of the children out-of-school in conflict areas and helps improve the quality of schooling for nearly 700,000 additional children.