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Article: Jolie-Pitt Foundation Donates $1 Million to Three Groups Working in the Darfur Region
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- May 11, 2007
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To: FOREIGN EDITORS
Contact: Jennifer Tabbal of SOS Children's Villages - USA, +1-202-
470-5175
WASHINGTON, May 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- UNHCR Goodwill
Ambassador Angelina Jolie and actor Brad Pitt have donated one
million dollars towards the humanitarian effort assisting more than
four million people affected by the crisis in Darfur.
The donation from the Jolie-Pitt Foundation will go to three
agencies playing key roles in Darfur and neighboring Chad: the UN
Refugee Agency; the International Rescue Committee and the
international NGO, SOS Children's Villages. All three agencies are
active in providing life-saving humanitarian assistance to the more
than two million people displaced ...