Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie Donate $340K To Somali Aid Group

By Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya — The head of a Somali aid group says that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have donated $340,000 to help it expand its health services to the displaced mothers and children in Somalia's war-ravaged capital.

The Horn of Africa nation has been suffering from its worst famine in 60 years, and the United Nations says 750,000 people are at risk of starving to death in the next few months.

The U.S. estimates that the drought and famine have so far killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5 in southern Somalia.

Mohamed Dahir of Humanitarian Initiative Just Relief Aid said the donation from the Jolie-Pitt Foundation will allow his group to expand its lifesaving health services that serve 300 women and children each day in Mogadishu's Badbaado camp for the displaced people.

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[bgofca]

03:35 AM on 10/13/2011

thank you angie and brad' also thank you to george clooney.

[Ugonna]

10:56 PM on 10/12/2011

LOVE THEM!

[jdollinter]

12:18 PM on 10/11/2011

How many of these beneficiaries are the same people whom joyously dragged our dead marines through the streets of their capital ?
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie can afford to play god in Somalia while families here continue to go without shelter or medical benefits. It makes me sick watching these two patting themselves on the back for being so open minded.Of course these contributions come with huge tax breaks and $340,000 is chump change to them. Feel bad for the adopted children they parade around like exotic pets they have rescued from the pound.

[RichardWalden]

07:34 PM on 10/10/2011

I hope this means that the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is no longer requiring licenses for foundations and NGOs to donate to groups working in Somalia.