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Angelina Jolie and partner Brad Pitt
have donated $2m to create a centre for Ethiopian children.(Photo Source:
China Daily/Agencies) Photo Gallery>>> |
BEIJING, Sept. 16 -- Angelina Jolie and partner Brad
Pitt have donated $2 million to create a centre, named after their adopted
daughter Zahara, for Ethiopian children affected by Aids and tuberculosis.
The Global Health Committee said the donation from
the Jolie-Pitt Foundation would establish a center in the Ethiopian capital
Addis Ababa to treat Aids orphans and develop a program to treat drug-resistant
tuberculosis.
The Oscar-winning Jolie adopted a baby girl she
called Zahara, now three years old, from Ethiopia in July 2005 and the new
clinic will be named after her.
"It is our hope that when Zahara is older, she will
take responsibility for the clinic and continue its mission," Pitt said in a
statement.
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Pitt and Jolie now have six children - twins Knox
Leon and Vivienne Marcheline born in July, Shiloh, two, and adopted children
Zahara, Pax from Vietnam and Maddox from Cambodia.
The Jolie-Pitt Foundation helped set up a similar
clinic in 2006 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia that is named after Maddox.
"Our goal is to transfer the success we have had in
Cambodia to Ethiopia where people are needlessly dying of tuberculosis, a
curable disease, and HIV/Aids, a treatable disease," Jolie said.
Ethiopia has the seventh-highest rate of tuberculosis
disease in the world and an estimated 1.7 million people in the country are
infected with HIV, according to the World Health Organization.
Unicef estimates that more than 900,000 children have
been orphaned by Aids in Ethiopia.
(Source: China
Daily/Agencies)
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