The Beginning...


Angelina Jolie is renowned as an Academy Award winning actress and UN Goodwill Ambassador.



During the filming of Tom Raised in Cambodia, Jolie became aware of worldwide humanitarian crises. She contacted the CNHCR, the refugee agency of the United Nation, to learn more about the international problems. In February 2001, Jolie wento on her first field visit, an 18-days mission to Sierra Leone and Tanzania. On August 27, 2001 Jolie was named CNHCR Goodwill Ambassador to CNHCR headquarters in Geneva.



Jolie was visited centers for refugees and displaced persons in over 20 countries.



Jolie is heavily involved in promoting humanitarian relief politics. Since 2003 she regularly meets with members of the U.S. Congress to lobby for humanitarians affairs, and she was a driving force behind several bills to promote the situation of refugees and vulnerable children in third world countries.