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Brad Pitt and Angelina set up charity
Sep 21, 2006, 16:23 GMT
Jolie and Pitt © Janet Mayer / Photorazzi
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have set up their own charity to help tackle extreme poverty and the spread of AIDS.
The Jolie/Pitt Foundation has already given $1 million to the Global Action for Children and another $1 million to Doctors Without Borders.
A spokesman for the couple, Trevor Neilson, explained: "Angelina and Brad are committed to using their resources to help the world's most vulnerable people.
"These two organizations are focusing on crises that receive far too little attention and Angelina and Brad are happy to do their part to help."
The US director for Global Action for Children, Jennifer Delaney, says the donations will make a big difference.
Delaney said: "Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt not only care, but more important, are taking concrete action to address the fact that there will be 20 million children orphaned by AIDS by 2010, and millions more orphaned by tuberculosis, malaria and conflict or whose parents are sick and dying."
Brad and Angelina, who are well known for their humanitarianism, have two adopted children, Maddox, five, and 18-month-old Zahara, and one biological daughter, four-month-old Shiloh Nouvel.
(C) BANG Media International
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