 Angelina Jolie: Donates $2 million for Ethiopian children
Beautiful actress Angelina Jolie has undertaken a noble venture for the welfare of society at large. Along with her husband Brad Pitt, Jolie has donated 2 million dollars in order to aid children who are affected by AIDS and tuberculosis in Ethiopia. A nonprofit group Global Health Committee (GHC) has made the announcement on Monday.
"The money will be used to create a center for AIDS and tuberculosis-affected children in the capital city of Addis Ababa, and to help establish a program to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis," added the GHC in a statement.
According to them, the clinic will be named after Angelina Jolie and Brat Pitt’s 3year-old Ethiopian adopted daughter Zahara. It is also known that the center will be modeled after a similar health center in Cambodia that was also funded by this celebrity couple.
"It is our hope when Zahara is older she will take responsibility of the clinic and continue its mission," added Pitt.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates that almost one million children have been orphan by AIDS in Ethiopia.
"Our goal is to transfer the success we have had in Cambodia to Ethiopia where people are needlessly dying of tuberculosis, a curable disease, and HIV/AIDS, a treatable disease," commented Angelina Jolie, an Oscar-winning actress and goodwill ambassador for United Nations Children's Fund.
"The Jolie-Pitt gift will allow us to deliver care and ease the great suffering caused by TB and AIDS." The comment has been put forth by Anne Goldfeld, the co-founder of GHC and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are raising six children together, twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, born in France this year, Shiloh, aged two, and adopted children Zahara, Pax from Vietnam and Maddox from Cambodia. |
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