Anelina Jolie’s diary records her trips as a volunteer with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, revealing the thoughts, feelings, and hidden corners of Angelina’s soul when faced with the reality of her life. refugees or places with legacy of war.

Actress Angelina Jolie in her role as special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is talking to people in Riohacha, Colombia on June 7, 2019 – Photo: REUTERS

The spirit of kindness

Readers will read Angelina’s personal confessions written by herself – in many cases hastily written on cross-time zone flights, or written on rudimentary local buses under the storm. It rained heavily because she met people whose stories were so special to her that if she didn’t immediately write them down in her notebook, she wouldn’t remember them all.

There are many meetings of an American movie star – an elite figure of the elite – with the poor and lowly inhabitants of Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador… Many of them are still alive. do not have citizenship yet

No one can force a Hollywood actress like Angelina to hastily rush to take advantage of the job and fly to Geneva and then fly to far away Cambodia, unless she herself wants to. The word volunteer itself speaks of the spirit of voluntary commitment.

July 2005: Brad Pitt and Angelina went to Ethiopia to adopt their second 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥, 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 Zahara – Photo: MB Pictures/Rex

Angelina Jolie confided that the starting point for her commitment to volunteering for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was information about the lives of people – people of her own kind – that shocked her so much that she can’t help but care:

– One-sixth of the world’s population lives on less than a dollar a day.

– 1.1 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water.

– More than 100 million 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren are out of school…

And that difference is the origin of these diary pages. The common denominator of the written pages is the spirit of compassion for people.

September 2006: Angelina and Brad Pitt co-founded the Jolie/Pitt Foundation, donating $2 million to two charities for orphans in developing countries, and extremely poor and affected families. by AIDS. In the years that followed, the couple expanded their philanthropy around the world, sponsoring projects in New Orleans, Cambodia, Ethiopia and Haiti – Photo: Getty Images

“I’m not a writer. This is just my diary. It was a glimpse of a world I was just beginning to understand, a world I could never truly explain in words.

Angelina Jolie”

Listen to Angelina’s concerns for the United Nations High Commissioner: “How is it that with all our awareness, capabilities and resources today, more than 800 million people have to go hungry? go to bed every night?”. The question is not easy to answer, just like the countless questions that still torment the minds of volunteers.

It is because she does not stop at mere questions that Angelina steps forward to reach out to refugees and poor people injured by war, with a heart of sharing and sympathy – a kind of “three with”: together. eat, live together, and work together to understand the circumstances of people in many regions.

The words are casual yet shocking

In Cambodia, Angelina wrote many stories in her diary. At one point, her words were casual but surprisingly shocking: “We stopped at a school next to a minefield.” What’s going on? Do people build schools next to minefields, or do they spread mines next to schools?

The answer came right away, also in the records about the elementary school, where the teachers did not receive a salary for 4 people teaching 240 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren: “When the school was built by the government, the area was not yet clear of mines. When HALO checked the 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren’s path to school, they found five land mines just a step away from the 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren’s path.”

Actress Angelina Jolie visited a Rohingya refugee camp in the Cox’s Bazar region of Bangladesh on February 5, 2019 – Photo: REUTERS

Angelina Jolie traveled to remote areas of Cambodia, even places where people could only ride bicycles and had no roads for cars. She went to Battambang by boat, soaked in the rain, and met households that were hungry and shivering while still reading their notebooks. take notes…

And there are many other places, many people, many other situations, what refugees have in common is the suffering arising from hatred.

As for volunteers like Angelina, she comes to that community of unlucky people not only with material relief trips, she also comes with love, opening her heart to share and record her feelings to More people know about those communities.

Source: wildlife