Brad & Angelina Give Big to Ethiopia
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie continue to spread the wealth, as they have just donated $2 million to the Global Health Committee to establish a center to aid children affected by tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia.
This will be the second place that Brangelina has helped established -- the first being the Cambodian Health Committee's Maddox Chivan Children's Center in Cambodia. The new medical center,like the first, will provide medical, education and social services for children.
"Our goal is to transfer the success we have had in Cambodia to Ethiopia where people are needlessly dying of tuberculosis, a curable disease, and HIV/AIDS, a treatable disease," Angelina said in a statement.
The Ethiopian branch will be named after Brad and Angie's oldest daughter, Zahara,who was adopted from Ethiopia.
"It is our hope when Zahara is older she will take responsibility of the clinic and continue its mission," Brad said.
Tuberculosis care will also be a main focus of the clinic. The disease causes approximately 2 million deaths yearly, and is the largest cause of death worldwide for children and adults with AIDS.
"The fact that poor people continue to die in our world today of TB, a curable disease, because of lack of access to drugs and care is unacceptable," Brad declared.
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