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She’s known for her charity work and good morals, so when Angelina Jolie set off to spend some time with Syrian refugees displaced from their homes it was hardly surprising, and certainly enlightening. The mother-of-six is a special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and is co-founder of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative.
She revealed to the New York Times about the horrendous experience she endured and what she thinks should be put to alleviate the going-ons in Syria.
The actress began by saying “I have visited Iraq five times since 2007, and I have seen nothing like the suffering I'm witnessing now. I came to visit the camps and informal settlements where displaced Iraqis and Syrian refugees are desperately seeking shelter from the fighting that has convulsed their region.” She then went on to prove her in-depth knowledge regarding the situation saying “In almost four years of war, nearly half of Syria's population of 23 million people has been uprooted. Within Iraq itself, more than two million people have fled conflict and the terror unleashed by extremist groups.”
She then went on to reveal how this trip in particular made her “Speechless” as she revealed “What do you say to a mother with tears streaming down her face who says her daughter is in the hands of the Islamic State, or ISIS, and that she wishes she were there, too? Even if she had to be raped and tortured, she says, it would be better than not being with her daughter. What do you say to the 13-year-old girl who describes the warehouses where she and the others lived and would be pulled out, three at a time, to be raped by the men? When her brother found out, he killed himself.”
Jolie has always been keen when it comes to helping out with those in need, and she promotes humanitarian causes and has been awarded an honorary Academy Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, and an honorary damehood of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG).
The actress is known for her caring nature, having adopted three of her six children and providing them with great love and attention and even revealed that she is closer to adopted son Maddox than her own genetic children. ▪
Angelina Jolie in Northern Iraq