Photo – Jolie with daughter Zahara, NYC, 2007 (Purseblog.com)
ANGELINA JOLIE and BRAD PITT are planning to take their young family on a trip to Ethiopia – to show them how to help people in the Third World.
Jolie and Pitt adopted their three-year-old daughter Zahara from the country in 2005. They have two other adopted children – Maddox, seven, from Cambodia and Pax, four, from Vietnam – as well as three biological children – Shiloh, two, and baby twins Knox and Vivienne.
The couple has already taken the kids to visit Maddox’s home country of Cambodia and now they plan to take the whole family to see the work being done in Ethiopia by their charity, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, which is funding an AIDS centre there.
Jolie says, “They’ll (the children) be in Ethiopia in a few weeks and they won’t have everything they have here, so we show them different worlds.”
The actress hopes the experience will teach the youngsters to follow in their parents’ philanthropical footsteps.
She adds, “They help buy candy and shoes and water, then take it to the local people, hang out and talk to the kids. They see that the world isn’t balanced. Instead of preaching to them, we’re showing them and hope that sinks in – and they’ll find in themselves a desire to help strike a balance.”
Good for Zahra. I hope Angelina helps Zahra family in Ethiopia. $100 p/w is enough for them.