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Angelina Jolie donates $100,000 to Syrian refugees

U.N. Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie visits Libya to help agencies bringing aid to Libyans in Tripoli and Misrata on October 11, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. Jolie was appointed as special envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees on April 17, 2012. (Handout/AFP/Getty Images)

Actor Angelina Jolie has donated $100,000 in aid to Syrian refugees, the United Nations refugee agency said on Wednesday according to Agence France Presse.

It comes the same day the UN High Commissioner for Refugees warned there is a funding shortfall for Syria's refugees.

UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming said "one month after the United Nations and its humanitarian partners issued an appeal for $84 million to help Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq, less than twenty per cent of the funds have been given."

Fleming said "the refugees and the countries hosting them are beginning to show signs of strain. Many refugees arrived with little or no financial resources, so are mostly reliant on the efforts of the host community and organizations dedicated to supporting them."

In a statement marking the donation on World Refugee Day, Jolie said "the solutions to the world's growing number of displaced people were political as well as humanitarian," reported AFP.

"The international community should rededicate itself to preventing conflict, addressing it when it erupts, and solving it more quickly," she said.

Jolie is a special envoy of the UNHCR and has been working with the agency since 2001.

In her work with the UNHCR, Jolie has made over 40 field visits to conflict zones in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Haiti, Iraq and Sudan, according to Reuters and has personally donated over $5 million to build schools in Kenya and Afghanistan.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/...angelina-jolie-donates-100000-syrian-refugees

 

[lethial]

Damn, just pocket change for her.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

she has been doing this kind of thing for a long time

 

[Omiee]

Damn, just pocket change for her.

thats what she makes in a day.

 

[mysticwhip]

that's it?

 

[FStop7]

Saw 'Skyrim' twice

 

[Archer]

thats what she makes in a day.

not even

 

[Conciliator]

Cool. That's more than $0.

 

[Krakatoa]

Either them or the tax man.

 

[rezuth]

that's it?

lol?

Anyway, great work.

 

[Lebron]

that's it?

How much have you donated?

 

[out0v0rder]

so fine.

 

[RustyNails]

How much have you donated?

Boom.

 

[Game-Biz]

that's it?

Let's see how much you've sent over.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

that's it?

Came sooner than expected. SMH.

 

[Crayons]

So she went to another country without adopting a baby?

Something must be wrong.

 

[mysticwhip]

How much have you donated?

Let's see how much you've sent over.

Came sooner than expected. SMH.

nothing. you guys?

 

[Lebron]

nothing. you guys?

$100, out of a little over $1300 my fraternity raised and donated to the Muslim Student Association on campus. Who then donated that to UNHCR with their and others contributions.

 

[Messypandas]

Pfft. karen huff makes that in a day

 

[mysticwhip]

$100, out of a little over $1300 my fraternity raised and donated to the Muslim Student Association on campus. Who then donated that to UNHCR with their and others contributions. Thanks for your contribution to nothing.

that's great man, im glad to see that people are helping out, warms the heart and what not. don't think i deserve thanks even though your being sarcastic, i think jolie could have coughed up some more cash though since she's a super millionare.

 

[Lebron]

that's great man, im glad to see that people are helping out, warms the heart and what not. don't think i deserve thanks even though your being sarcastic, i think jolie could have coughed up some more cash though since she's a super millionare.

I edited it out, it was uncalled for. Sure she could have donated a lot more, but $100,000 still will go a long way over there.

 

[The Anti-Monitor]

that's it?

You meant "too little too late".

She's been doing stuff like this for years.

 

[mysticwhip]

I edited it out, it was uncalled for. Sure she could have donated a lot more, but $100,000 still will go a long way over there.

that's true, maybe my comment was immature. thanks lebron.

 

[Al-ibn Kermit]

Is that legal? Isn't she a government employee (ambassador to Cambodia)?

 

[SquiddyCracker]

that's it?

I got Syrian roots and I haven't donated anything, so it is pretty good as it is an as distant as possible problem for Jolie.

 

[mysticwhip]

I got Syrian roots and I haven't donated anything, so it is pretty good as it is an as distant as possible problem for Jolie.

yeah, my comment was pretty immature.

 

[Alucrid]

yeah, my comment was pretty immature.

that's it?

 

[SUPREME1]

Is that legal? Isn't she a government employee (ambassador to Cambodia)?

$100K of her own money to a charity. Don't see how that'd be illegal.

I could be wrong, though I hope I'm not.

 

[mysticwhip]

that's it?

yup

 

[coldvein]

i just saw on tv that she bought brad pitt a helicopter or something for like a million bucks. still nice of her though, i guess.

 

[ShipTheCheese]

I want her to adopt me.

 

[NullPointer]

Good for her. I would say she should do it privately but this way she can shine a light on the problem.

 

[Al-ibn Kermit]

$100K of her own money to a charity. Don't see how that'd be illegal.

I could be wrong, though I hope I'm not.

But what if the refugees use the money to buy weapons? Then you have a US government employee directly arming rebels.

It's plausible.

 

[CountAntonius]

More than I have sent. Good for her.

 

[MIMIC]

I'd donate $100K, but I'd go to jail for fraud =p

 

[ComputerMKII]

I wonder how much she tips.

 

[johnsmith]

How much has Kristen Stewart given?

 

[SUPREME1]

But what if the refugees use the money to buy weapons? Then you have a US government employee directly arming rebels.

It's plausible.

But what if it goes to housing, clothing, feeding and caring for refugees forced from their homes by shelling committed by the Syrian regime? It's plausible.



Either way, I really wouldn't have any issue with it, seeing how it'd come down to:

Angelina Jolie's $100K vs. Russia's attack helicopters and UN Security Council veto.



Besides, I'm sure she's not donating to The Syrain People's Resistance Army Charity For The Armed Struggle Against Al-Assad's Murderous Regime or anything like that.

 

[broadwayrock]

I wonder how much she tips.

She and brad spent £3000 at a curry restaurant in England and left a £733 tip.

 

[IrishNinja]

i just saw on tv that she bought brad pitt a helicopter or something for like a million bucks. still nice of her though, i guess.

hey, welcome back, veiny.

 

[tino]

Sharp knees. Also, I hate her becuase she have twins.

 

[MIMIC]

How much has Kristen Stewart given?

"Twilight" tickets are far more valuable than actual money =p