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Article: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Donate $100,000 to Direct Change to Support the Duk Lost Boys Clinic in Southern Sudan
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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To: FOREIGN EDITORS
Contact: Ken Deutsch of Direct Change, +1-202-263-2910,
kdeutsch@directchange.org
WASHINGTON, March 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Direct Change, an
organization that builds grassroots financial support for community
based African projects, announced today it has received a $100,000
donation from Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's Jolie-Pitt Foundation to
support the final construction and ongoing operations for the first
modern medical facility in Duk County, Sudan. The Duk Lost Boys
Clinic, scheduled to open later this spring serving more than 150,000
people, is the dream and brainchild of John Dau, the Director of
Direct Change's Sudan Project and one of the "Lost Boys of ...