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Jolie overwhelmed at 1st by refugee work

(AP)
Updated: 2007-03-12 08:24


NEW YORK - Angelina Jolie says her work as a humanitarian ambassador for
the United Nations at first left her tearful and overwhelmed.



Angelina Jolie, right, with her daughter Zahara, and Brad Pitt, left,
with Jolie's son Maddox, walk near the Gateway of India, unseen, in
Mumbai, India, on Nov. 12, 2006. [AP]

"The first two years I just cried constantly," the actress told Newsweek.
"I couldn't really talk about the situation without being emotional. And
I went through a period of just complete lack of hope."

During her February visit to the Oure Cassoni camp on the border between
Darfur and Chad she came across a disturbed 7-year-old boy whose family
had tied him to a pole to stop him wandering away or banging himself. The
boy had spent 48 hours hiding in the bush after his village was bombed.

"I talked to him for like half an hour and just kind of looked at him for
a long time before he touched me," Jolie told the magazine, "and there
was a little boy in there who was open to a kind sound."

Jolie has visited camps in Africa, Pakistan and Cambodia as part of her
work as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees. She said she travels unaccompanied on commercial flights,
and doesn't care about people who describe what she does as celebrity
tourism.

"I don't know if anybody saying that has spent the last six years of
their life going to over 30 camps and really spending time with these
people," said Jolie, who wants to return to Cambodia.












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