ANGELINA JOLIE’S CINEMA MESSAGE TO KENYANS

Kenyan cinemagoers will be able to see the special message recorded by UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie for World Refugee Day when they visit a Fox Cinema from June 17.
The 30-second message, specially recorded for World Refugee Day (WRD), will be screened before all movies in every Fox cinema in the run up to WRD on Monday 20 June and in the days after the global event and officially launches UNHCR’s “1” global media campaign ahead of World Refugee Day on June 20. In the message, UNHCR's Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie is asking Kenyans to do 1 thing to help refugees.



To mark the occasion and this year's 60th anniversary of the UN Refugee Convention, UNHCR is launching a six-month campaign aimed at promoting public awareness of the stories of individual refugees and other forcibly displaced people. The campaign will feature a number of media products including a video by UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie, a new online video experience called “1 Life, 1 Story” in which refugees tell their own stories, and related publicity materials inviting members of the public to get involved and Do 1 Thing to help refugees, such as follow UNHCR on Facebook and Twitter.



UNHCR is also inviting members of the public and media organizations alike to engage and support the campaign via their news and blog sites. For interested media organizations, online digital banners are available for this purpose. Join us in letting others know that even one person forced to flee war or persecution, is one too many.

ANGELINA JOLIE’S DONATION TO ADOPT ZAHARA USED TO KILL ETHIOPIANS?

A commentary on Online Journal is alleging that the money movie star Angelina Jolie paid for the adoption of Ethiopian baby girl Zarah, ended up in the hands of the Government of Ethiopia which they online site terms “the national crime syndicate”.
“When you buy . . . adopt, a baby in Ethiopia there is a good chance that the baby isn’t an orphan, though it is usually standard language in all the sale/adoption papers that such is the case. With millions of Ethiopians famine stricken, selling babies has become a way to survive for some. Though of the Sh2.25million as little as $1,000 makes it through the hands of the Ethiopian mafia to the babies families.
If one has been reading the pages of this and other websites willing to publish what is really going on in Ethiopia, you will know that Ethiopia is committing genocide against the ethnic Somalis in the Ethiopian Ogaden. So why should selling babies come as a shock?” It reads.

JOLIE AND PITT HIRED WHOLE CAMP AT THE MARA

A-list hollywood celeb couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were at the Mara from September 10. The couple who are always hounded by paparazzi, quietly entered Kenya with their entourage, and spent a few days at a camp in the Mara.
A source says, “Angelina and Brad hired the whole camp to ensure they had privacy.” The Mr and Mrs Smith stars checked into the Cottars 1920s Safari Camp, which is situated in the Maasai Mara, bordering the Serengeti and Loliondo ecosystem.
They were there to “relax and shop for charity projects in the area,” the source said.
Angelina who is the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) goodwill ambassador spent their Saturday (September 12) with refugees at the Dadaab refugee camp on the Kenya-Somali border.
Apparently her visit was so hush hush even some of the UNHCR officials did not know that the actress was going to visit Daadab, another source intimated.

That aside. Y’all need to know that the Cottars 1920s Safari Camp has also played host to big American stars like Keira Knightley, covered by Vogue and reviewed by the Conde Nast Traveler.
Here is the Vogue article



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Blu*3 join Angelina Jolie in fight against trafficking

Ugandan girl group Blu*3 have joined big American showbiz personalities Angelina Jolie and Ricky Martin as well as British actress Emma Thompson to fight Human trafficking. The campaign entails mobilising people against illegal immigration and human trafficking. The three pop divas, Lee, Jaqui and Mya are the first African music group to be named goodwill ambassadors for the International Organisation of Migration (IOM).
Blu*3 are set to perform at international music festivals in Sweden, the US, Dubai and the UK as part of their role. They will also go on an anti-illegal immigration and anti-slavery tour which will feature Kenya’s Nameless, Burundi's Kidumu and Tanzania's TID. To commemorate their achievement, Blu*3 have released Fly Away, a song about the evils of human trafficking. As the soundtrack of the upcoming IOM documentary, the song will be aired on radio and TV stations worldwide.