Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie help children victims of Katrina
Perfect celebrity couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are using their star power to help focus attention on The Children’s Health Fund which helps more than 46,000 children still displaced 2 1/2 years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed their homes.
Jolie said her work as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees prompted her to get involved with the CHF’s effort.
“This is the largest displacement of children in my own country so I want to learn as much as possible,” she said at a news conference. Pitt and Jolie have made New Orleans their home since the hurricanes and have been working to help the area recover.
“We’re focused on community building,” Pitt said. “It’s not just about homes. It’s not just about building. It’s about the lack of focus on education and health care too.”
Pitt has pledged more than $5 million to Make it Right, a project to rebuild 150 homes in the Katrina-devastated Lower 9th Ward, one of the city’s most impoverished neighborhoods.
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