Jolie, Pitt Donate $100,000 to Orphan Children
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are truly giving back this holiday season.
The couple donated $100,000 to support the American SOS Children's Villages for Christmas. The organization is dedicated to the long-term care of orphaned and abandoned children.
The megastars adopted three of their six children. Maddox, 8, Zahara, 4, and Pax, 6, all spent time in orphanages overseas.
See photos of Brad and Angie's dates
In a statement, Jolie said, "We have seen first-hand the remarkable job SOS does to raise orphaned and abandoned children and keep families together. No one 'ages out' of an SOS Village: vocational training, advanced education, living assistance and moral support are there forever."
See Brad, Angelina and the kids dressed up for Halloween
Pitt added, "In this holiday season, many of us take for granted that we are surrounded by loving family members. The poor outcomes for foster children indicate that we must do a much better job of supporting them."
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Adoption is a violence based in inequality; it is candy-coated, marketed, and packaged to appear to concern families and children, but it is an economically and politically incentivized crime, a treating of symptoms and not of disease; it is a negation of families and an annihilation of those communities not imbued with the intrinsic human value taken for granted by those adopting for reasons having to do with race, with class, and with a preconceived notion of what makes for a “valid” life in this world.
December 27, 2009