Angelina Jolie was in north westestern Pakistan Tuesday visiting Afghan refuge camps, according to reports. The camps were devastated by the recent flooding that has killed 1700 people so far and left another 21 million in need of aid.
Oscar winner and mother of six, Jolie, was shocked to see the vastness of the destruction wrought by weeks of heavy rains. “From what I understand, the situation is on a scale we have not really seen. It’s on a huge scale,” she said during Tuesday’s visit, according to The UK Telegraph. “There are people displaced by the floods, all their homes washed away. Many of them lost their children during the floods.”
Angelina’s presence as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador is hoped to raise attention to the plight of the millions of people that have lost their loved ones, homes and belongings in Pakistan’s deadliest floods in decades. Aid workers say they still face a desperate battle trying to ensure food, medicine and drinking water reach those in need.
The United Nations are still one third short of the $460 million target needed for emergency funds with donations having more or less dried up in recent days. Maurizio Giuliano, UN spokesman, said he hoped a movie star would help remind people that millions of lives were still at stake. “If we don’t raise the money then people will die - it’s as simple as that,” he said.
Oscar winner and mother of six, Jolie, was shocked to see the vastness of the destruction wrought by weeks of heavy rains. “From what I understand, the situation is on a scale we have not really seen. It’s on a huge scale,” she said during Tuesday’s visit, according to The UK Telegraph. “There are people displaced by the floods, all their homes washed away. Many of them lost their children during the floods.”
Angelina’s presence as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador is hoped to raise attention to the plight of the millions of people that have lost their loved ones, homes and belongings in Pakistan’s deadliest floods in decades. Aid workers say they still face a desperate battle trying to ensure food, medicine and drinking water reach those in need.
The United Nations are still one third short of the $460 million target needed for emergency funds with donations having more or less dried up in recent days. Maurizio Giuliano, UN spokesman, said he hoped a movie star would help remind people that millions of lives were still at stake. “If we don’t raise the money then people will die - it’s as simple as that,” he said.
