Brangelina Donate $2 Million For Ethiopian Clinic
Hollywood’s undisputed most powerful couple, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie donated $2 million to build a clinic in Ethiopia. The Global Health Committee has announced that it received US$2 million from the Jolie-Pitt Foundation for the clinic that will help fight HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in Ethiopia, the country where daughter Zahara was adopted. The centre will be named for Zahara.
The World Health Organization estimates that the African nation has 1.7 million people infected with HIV and 6,000 people infected with drug-resistant tuberculosis. “It is our hope when Zahara is older she will take responsibility of the clinic and continue its mission,” Pitt, 44, said in a statement.
The couple had also set up Maddox Chivan Children’s Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, named after their oldest son, 7-year-old Maddox, who was adopted from Cambodia.
“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, 33, said in a statement Saturday.
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