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Angelina Jolie has been very busy making the world aware of World Refugee Day (which is tomorrow, June 20th). This morning the Today show aired an interview that Ann Curry did with Angelina Jolie yesterday.
It was yet another wonderful interview bringing important facts about refugee to light. They even spoke of one of Angelina’s first UNHCR missions to Pakistan in 2001. She talked about how, as a mother, she wants to make sure she has enough snacks for her kids on long drives so that they won’t be hungry and yet she had met with mothers who sometimes have absolutely no food at all to offer to their children for days at a time and how that must be one of the most difficult things in the world for a parent to go through.
I also liked Angelina’s response when Ann said that sometimes Americans don’t feel like they care about refugees because American lives are being lost in those same areas in wars, so what makes Angie care so much. Her reply was that she cares and others should too because those refugees are fighting (or fleeing) the same extremists that the U.S. is fighting – in other words the troops and the refugees are allies (and I’d like to add with the main difference being that the refugees aren’t able to defend themselves as much).
Angelina added that the point is not to simply feel pity for refugees but to help them to get to a point where they can rely on themselves because they are such strong, smart people. They are the future there.
Much like in the Anderson Cooper interview last night, Angelina said that it is her intention to take her children to these camps to help them to understand how fortunate they are and how important compassion and aid is. Ann brought up the fact that Angelina has already taken Maddox to some of the camps – what an experience. Angie said that she wants her kids to be raised with a more accurate view of the world than she was – and indeed, most of us were – so that they can grow up to be better people than they would be if they were sheltered. She even said if she had understood the problems of the world better at a younger age, she probably would have gotten through her own youth better and would have been less self-destructive.
Every time I hear Angelina Jolie speak about refugees I feel so inspired. Don’t you?
In related news, I left this link in the post about Anderson Cooper but I want to bring it here too. If you’re interested in learning more, the UNHCR is running live streaming today and tomorrow from various refugee camps. You can watch and get even more educated on life in their world by clicking over here.
i just want to say to angie: You Go Girl!!!
i think she is one awesome lady and everything she does comes from down deep within her heart just like lady di…….
angie and brad are helping so many outside the usa and also inside the usa they are so fortunate to have them …
i love her also as an actress and have all of her movies and admire her work in film……
i hope someday i could meet her and give her a great big pat on the back..
but where i come from that will never happen but i still have my dream of meeting her …
Not only is she doing this which is admirable in itself……..but she’s doing a good job of it. I never would have known it was world refugee day if she wasn’t there spreading the light on it. And she does really care and you can tell. How beautiful.
Kim I know what you are saying but I think it is important to know that making a difference in the world can be as simple as smiling at someone as you walk down the hall. Saying something genuine and nice. There are children and people everywhere that just need to know someone cares. I know we are talking about refugees in particular at this time but I wanted to be a missionary at one time when I was young. After being a bartendar for about 12 years one day a man said to me……..honey you are a witness for the GOOD in world…….The message here is to consider the plight of other less fortunate people and to not have pity but compassion. There is someone within your reach that could use your help and understanding. And it doesn’t cost a thing.
To be honest it makes me some what depressed, to be sitting here at work and not be able to do anything about it. I have to remind myself that someday there will be a global awakening of minds and people will realize that tolerance and acceptance is key. Someday the borders will be broken down and we will be one plant with one population. It will be a renaissance with intellectual discoveries in to art, literature, math and sciences and these will be our focus towards a spiritual discovery within ourselves. I would love to see this revolution take place but it is more likely it will be my great great grandchildren.
she is a real superwhoman!
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are remarkable and kind people, they have done so much for this country and other countries where others have failed. What they do they do from the heart. I respect these people for all the good they do.
Sherry,I’m with you!I feel inspired When I hear Angie speak about refugees too.Just the sound of her voice makes you realise how much she cares about them and it makes you wanna help them as much as you can!
She is a wonderful woman!!!And only the fact that she wants to teach her children all the things she didn’t learn when she was young and show them the way to help people who need help and the way to be better human beings,makes you realise what a fantastic mother she is!!!
Proud to be her fan!!!
Thank you Sherry!!!