QUICK TAKES - June 19, 2009
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have donated $1 million to the U.N. refugee agency providing aid to hundreds of thousands uprooted by violence in Pakistan.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees on Thursday expressed gratitude for the donation from the Jolie-Pitt Foundation and said the money would go to alleviating suffering caused by the “most challenging humanitarian crisis of the past decade.”
Jolie has visited refugees in Pakistan on three missions since becoming goodwill ambassador for the agency in 2001. The Oscar-winning actress took Pitt with her on one such visit in 2005.
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