NEW YORK:  Hollywood star Angelina Jolie, Goodwill Ambassador of UN High Commissioner for Refugees’(UNHCR), and her partner Brad Pitt, have donated one million dollars towards the humanitarian effort assisting millions of people affected by the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region.

“The donation from the Jolie-Pitt Foundation will go to three agencies playing key roles in Darfur and neighbouring Chad, the UN refugee agency, the International Rescue Committee and the international non-governmental organisation, SOS Children’s Villages,” UNHCR said.

All three agencies are active in providing life-saving humanitarian assistance to more than 2 million people displaced within Darfur and the 240,000 refugees from Darfur living in camps in eastern Chad.   MORE>>>