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11
October 2006
Angelina
Jolie Donates To Pearl
Foundation
Hollywood
couple Brad
Pitt
and Angelina
Jolie
have donated $100,000
(£54,000) to a
foundation set up in the
name of murdered US
reporter Daniel
Pearl.
The
pair, who are in India
making a film based on
the journalist's life,
made the donation on
what would have been Mr
Pearl's 43rd
birthday.
Angelina
Jolie plays his wife
Mariane in A Mighty
Heart, which is being
produced by Pitt's
company Plan
B.
Mr
Pearl was abducted and
killed while on
assignment in Pakistan
in 2002.
The
charity, founded in the
wake of his death,
observed his birthday on
Tuesday with a series of
musical events around
the world.
Angelina
Jolie recently said that
she was "disappointed"
that the film could not
be made in Pakistan due
to safety
concerns.
Meanwhile,
Angelina has accused
Western governments of
trying to shut out
refugees, stating that
more than 7,000 migrants
have died during the
past year in their
attempts to enter
Europe.
The
actress, who is a
goodwill ambassador for
the United Nations High
Commission for Refugees
(UNHCR), told the
organisation's magazine
Refugees of how a
picture showing a couple
sunbathing on a beach
close to the washed-up
body of an African man
had affected
her.
"We'll
never know who he was or
why he ended up there
and the couple on the
beach apparently
couldn't care less,"
said Angelina Jolie in
the article.
She
added that her
experiences of meeting
refugees had been "a
truly humbling
experience, a shocking
eye-opener".
"It
has made me realise that
we are all - myself
included - behaving like
the couple sitting under
their umbrella on the
beach, gazing studiously
out to sea," Angelina
added.
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