10 Humanitarian Acts Angelina Jolie Contributed to a Better World
Angelina Jolie is a devoted humanitarian who strives to make the world a better place via a number of charity endeavours. Despite her celebrity as the daughter of celebrities and her work on the big screen, she continues to utilise her vast platform to promote compassion and justice across the world. Whether it’s raising awareness about the significance of bees or the hardship of migrants, Jolie knows the value of helping the world and the people who live on it.
The mother of six, who works as a special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, is particularly interested in the countries where her three adopted children were born: Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Vietnam.
“My work as a film star has become relatively dull as a result of my role as a goodwill ambassador.” “I can’t find anything that piques my interest enough to return to work,” she said CNN in 2005. “I’m just not interested in anything.” I’m not looking forward to going on a movie set.”
Angelina Jolie: Humanitarian and Environmentalist
Jolie is no stranger to utilising her platform to advocate for others. Here are 10 ways the actress utilised her position for good, from spotlighting refugee populations to advocating animal conservation.
She protects bees while also empowering women.
Jolie was dubbed “Godmother” of the Women for Bees project in May 2021, a five-year programme aiming to teach women all across the globe as beekeepers. As a result, in an effort to raise awareness about current conservation efforts, the actress appeared for a portrait in National Geographic while coated in bees.
Jolie is understandably ecstatic about the project. “When women gain knowledge and skills, their natural instinct is to help raise others.” “I’m looking forward to meeting the women from all over the world who are taking part in this programme,” she said in a statement at the time.
“I’m looking forward to meeting them and learning about their culture and environment, as well as the role bees play in it.” I think the training would improve their independence, livelihoods, and communities.”
She works to assist refugees.
The Oscar winner has worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for almost two decades. She began her work with the organisation as a goodwill ambassador, travelling to Sierra Leone, Iraq, Thailand, and other countries to help individuals who had been forced to escape their homes find answers.
Jolie was appointed as a special envoy to the UNHCR in 2012, and she has since continued to engage with refugee communities throughout the world.
“My work now involves fighting alongside my colleagues for refugees to have rights and protection, to resist forced returns, and to push for better learning opportunities,” she told Vogue at the time. “The UNHCR is a protection organisation.” We assist people who have fled violence and persecution and whose rights have been infringed.”
She works to assist refugees.
She Speaks Out Against Sexual Violence
Jolie founded The Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative in 2012 with former Foreign Secretary Lord William Hague of Richmond.
The programme, which is part of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in the United Kingdom, aims to increase awareness of the prevalence of sexual violence against children and adults in circumstances of armed conflict and to mobilise worldwide action to put an end to it.
“When it comes down to it, we still treat violence against women as a lesser crime,” Jolie said in February 2018 to Elle. “More than 150 countries have signed a pledge to end impunity for war-zone rape.” New teams have been formed to collect evidence and assist in prosecutions. Last summer, I was in Kenya while UN peacekeeping soldiers underwent fresh training, as peacekeepers have been a part of the problem. We’re collaborating with NATO on training, security, and increasing the number of women in the military, but there’s still a long way to go.”
Jolie collaborated with vegan fashion designer Stella McCartney to start the Draw Me to Safety Campaign in 2014. The initiative aimed to stop sexual assault and support children in war-torn nations.
She works as a conservationist.
Jolie established the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation in 2003, a conservation organisation dedicated to preserving Cambodia’s environment and endangered species. In addition, the charity works to alleviate extreme rural poverty in Cambodia and has established a landmine clearing programme.
“With so much we are worried about around the world and so many people feeling overwhelmed with bad news and the reality of what is collapsing, this is one that we can manage,” the conservationist added. “We can certainly all step in and do our part.”
Jolie also supports The Harnas Wildlife Foundation, a Namibian organisation dedicated to the conservation of the country’s endangered wild species.
She works as a conservationist.
She is an advocate for orphaned and abandoned children.
For numerous years, Jolie has served as an ambassador for SOS Children’s Villages, an organisation dedicated to preserving the interests and rights of orphaned and abandoned children. The Girl, Interrupted star has visited several of the charity’s overseas outposts in Haiti, Jordan, Ethiopia, and others as part of her engagement with the organisation.
Jolie has previously stated that she enjoys working with SOS because she has “seen that the children are growing up in a safe and loving environment.”
She is an advocate for orphaned and abandoned children.
She Uses Her Platform to Spotlight Refugees
Jolie has used her platform as a movie star to bring visibility to refugee experiences. She has produced several movies that portray their struggle, including her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, which she also wrote. The 2011 film takes place during the Bosnian War, and depicts the horrors that came with it.
Jolie actually shot two versions of the movie—one in English and one in the native Serbo-Croatian—and cast local actors from parts of former Yugoslavia. Many of them had lived through the war.
Jolie produced, co-wrote, and directed First They Killed My Father in 2017, which was based on Loung Ung’s memoir of the same name. During the Khmer Rouge era, Ung was forced to train as a child soldier while her siblings were transferred to labour camps.
“I created it for Cambodia.” In September 2017, she told Screen Daily, “I made it as a kind of thank you, a love letter.” “There hadn’t been a story on this scale that would reach people in their language, with them being the hero.”
She Uses Her Platform to Spotlight Refugees
She established a charitable foundation.
Jolie and her now ex-husband Brad Pitt established the Jolie-Pitt Foundation in 2006, in addition to the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation. Its goal is to help humanitarian causes all across the world.
When the foundation was debuted 15 years ago, the couple made a major impact by contributing $1 million to the now-defunct Global Action for Children and another $1 million to Doctors Without Borders in an effort to help HIV/AIDS-affected families in severe poverty.
In 2007, the charity contributed $333,000 to SOS Children’s Villages, another cause dear to Jolie’s heart, and $1 million to humanitarian relief groups operating in Darfur.
She Volunteers in the Fashion Industry
Jolie is no stranger to gems as a movie star, so it’s no surprise that she’s discovered a way to utilise them to make the world a better place.
The Style of Jolie, a collaboration jewellery line by Jolie and designer Robert Procop, was introduced in 2012 to assist The Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, a nonprofit co-founded by Jolie. This charity’s mission is to establish schools and educate children in places of severe war and significant refugee populations.
Procop and Jolie have both agreed to contribute 100% of Style of Jolie sales to the charity, which has already built a primary school in Afghanistan by 2013.
“Beyond enjoying the artistic satisfaction of designing these jewels, we are inspired by knowing our work is also serving the mutual goal of providing for children in need,” actress Angelina Jolie said in a 2013 statement.
She Volunteers in the Fashion Industry
She gives others the tools they need to make the world a better place.
Jolie founded The Jolie Legal Fellowship in 2011 to assist others in doing good. The Jolie-Pitt Foundation established and supported the fellowship to help the Haitian government’s ongoing efforts to enhance the Haitian judicial system.
Nathalie Nozile, an alumnus of SOS Children’s Villages in Santo, Haiti, was named the inaugural Jolie Legal Fellow in 2011. She was chosen after graduating from the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida in 2009.
“I am overjoyed that Nathalie Nozile will be our first legal fellow in Haiti, where there is such an urgent need to improve child protection,” Jolie remarked at the time.
“Now, as a promising attorney, she will draw on her personal experience as she returns to help strengthen the Haitian judicial system,” the actress continued. Nathalie will work in Haiti to promote equitable access to justice and the preservation of children’s rights.”
She believes in the Black Lives Matter movement.
In the aftermath of George Floyd’s tragic death, Jolie gave $200,000 to the NAACP Legal Defence Fund in June 2020. The actress made the significant gift only one day before her 45th birthday, and she issued a passionate message about her commitment to give back and support the cause.
“Rights do not belong to any one group to be distributed to another.” Discrimination and impunity must not be accepted, rationalised, or excused. “I hope we can come together as Americans to address our society’s deep structural flaws,” she remarked at the time. “I stand with the NAACP Legal Defence Fund in their fight for racial equality, social justice, and their call for urgent legislative reform.”
Jolie’s NAACP gift is just one example of how she has aided the BLM campaign. The actress has been outspoken about the need for change, particularly in the criminal justice system. “There is racism and discrimination in America,” she told Elle UK, adding that she is concerned for her daughter Zahara’s future as a Black woman in the United States. “A system that protects me but might not protect my daughter—or any other man, woman, or child in our country based on skin color—is intolerable.”
Jolie has also spoken out on reforming how Black history is taught in American classrooms. “What I see in, for example, American history books and how limited they are… they start teaching people who are Black about their lives through the Civil Rights movement, which is such a horrible place to begin,” Jolie said in a TIME 100 Talk with Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate.
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