Angelina Jolie donates $2m for kids in Ethiopia
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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)
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    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.
People magazine scored a coup by posting the cover of its upcoming issue feature Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and twins Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon on the Internet Sunday. Price tag for a peek at the world's most famous twins: 14 million U.S. dollars, according to an unsourced report.(Photo: People.com)

People magazine scored a coup by posting the cover of its upcoming issue feature Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and twins Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon on the Internet Sunday. Price tag for a peek at the world's most famous twins: 14 million U.S. dollars, according to an unsourced report.(Photo: People.com)
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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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Angelina Jolie was born in Los Angeles. Her father is Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight. She began studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute at the age of 11. >>> Full Story

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