;^)
Posted on 06/25/2008 6:49:15 PM PDT by winstonwolf33
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's love for children is by no means limited to their own: The couple has donated $1 million to help kids affected by the war in Iraq, the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict announced Wednesday.
The organization will distribute the donation, made through the couple's Jolie-Pitt Foundation, to four organizations working on behalf of children who have lost parents, homes and schools in Iraq. Children in the U.S. who have lost parents in the conflict will also benefit.
"These educational support programs for children of conflict are the best way to help them heal," said Jolie in a written statement from Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, which she co-chairs.
"We hope to encourage others to give to these great organizations," Pitt added in the statement.
The money will be divided between the Armed Services YMCA Operation Hero Program, which provides military children with counseling and educational support; Women for Women International, which will provide books, school supplies and other basic necessities to Iraqi women and children; the International Rescue Committee, which will repair three schools and offer classes for more than 2,500 students; and NineMillion.org, which will give school uniforms and learning materials to more than 2,000 displaced Iraqi kids.
Last year, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation gave more than $300,000 to support the International Rescue Committee's relief program for Darfur refugees.
Jolie, who's expecting twins, has said the babies are due in August. She and Pitt have four children: Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 2.
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Awesome!
Yes, thank you and would you and Brad please get married and quit living in sin.
Outstanding!
Not all of their politics are correct, but she gets her hands dirty, knows what is going on and puts her actions and money to work to solve problems. Most Hollywood types sit in the huge mansions and just cluelessly bitch.
Still don't get the tramp stamps though, never will. What a thing to look at while you're ah...talking
There might be some Freepers who don't know what Brad look like, either. ;^)
She is perty, but she needs some more meat on her legs. Other than that, nice story, and her Dad should be proud.
She makes my skin crawl *shudder*. Never saw her as a ‘sex symbol’, she just seemed ‘skanky’.
But this is outstanding news! A liberal who puts their money where their mouth is. Not too many of them like that.
And what’s this I’ve heard about her owning a gun? Maybe she inherited some of the more conservative instincts that her father has ...!
Exactly, she and Brad may be lefties but they put there money and their actions where there mouths are, which they don’t run that much in the first place.
Yes, but in a good way.
Bless you!!!!
Now, Tommy Lee Jones - much older, less handsome, but loaded with presence - is another story.
What’s good for the gander....!
Brad is a lefty, but if anyone took the time to read some of the things she has written lately she is sounding a lot more like her father’s daughter than a lefty, if anything she sounds like an independent.
I don’t think there are many people who are less impressed with these two than I am. That being said, this is a good thing and I salute them for doing it.
The agencies seem reasoned, and they are putting their money to good use here. I do respect that.
We need to pray for them. I think the two of them have some real potential and Jolie really does seem to have a heart for those suffering. As far as the Hollywood crowd goes, they seem to do far more than many in the area of charity.
I think they might have given more than Oprah and she has more money than Solomon ever had.
Hey RabidRalph, good to see you posting this evening. Hope all is going good for you.
I think you’ve got a lot of company out there that would agree with that ‘in a good way’ comment.
You take care.
But he’s a liberal too.
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