Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
Autor Angelina Jolieen Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2003
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780743470230
ISBN-10: 0743470230
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 16 pg b-w insert
Dimensiuni: 135 x 210 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Pckt Bks Trade.
Editura: Gallery Books
Colecția Gallery Books
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0743470230
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 16 pg b-w insert
Dimensiuni: 135 x 210 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Pckt Bks Trade.
Editura: Gallery Books
Colecția Gallery Books
Locul publicării:United States
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Notă biografică
Angelina Jolie is an award-winning actress and has starred in over thirty films, including Maleficent, Girl, Interrupted, Changeling, and many more. She has directed several films, including one documentary. She lives in Los Angeles with her children.
Extras
Introduction
I was asked to write an introduction to my journals, to explain how my journals came to be, why my life took this direction, and why I decided to start it.
As I try to find the answers, I am sure of one thing: I am forever changed. I am so grateful I took this path in my life, thankful that I met these amazing people and had this incredible experience.
I honestly believe that if we were all aware, we would all be compelled to act.
So the question is not how or why I would do this with my life. The question is, how could I not?
Many nights I sat awake reading stories and statistics about national and international tragedies.
I read about UNHCR:
• More than twenty million refugees exist today.
• One-sixth of the world's population lives on less than one dollar a day.
• 1.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water.
• One-third of the world has no electricity.
• More than 100 million children are out of school.
• One in six children in Africa dies before the age of five.
I read about different organizations that do humanitarian work. I had been reading about Sierra Leone when I was in England. When I got back to the States it was difficult to follow the stories, so I called USA for UNHCR and asked if they could help me understand the situation there and similar situations elsewhere in the world. Three weeks later I was in Sierra Leone.
I don't know how this will be as a book, how readers will find it. I am not a writer. These are just my journals. They are just a glimpse into a world that I am just beginning to understand, a world I could never really explain in words.
Copyright © 2003 by Angelina Jolie
I was asked to write an introduction to my journals, to explain how my journals came to be, why my life took this direction, and why I decided to start it.
As I try to find the answers, I am sure of one thing: I am forever changed. I am so grateful I took this path in my life, thankful that I met these amazing people and had this incredible experience.
I honestly believe that if we were all aware, we would all be compelled to act.
So the question is not how or why I would do this with my life. The question is, how could I not?
Many nights I sat awake reading stories and statistics about national and international tragedies.
I read about UNHCR:
• More than twenty million refugees exist today.
• One-sixth of the world's population lives on less than one dollar a day.
• 1.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water.
• One-third of the world has no electricity.
• More than 100 million children are out of school.
• One in six children in Africa dies before the age of five.
I read about different organizations that do humanitarian work. I had been reading about Sierra Leone when I was in England. When I got back to the States it was difficult to follow the stories, so I called USA for UNHCR and asked if they could help me understand the situation there and similar situations elsewhere in the world. Three weeks later I was in Sierra Leone.
I don't know how this will be as a book, how readers will find it. I am not a writer. These are just my journals. They are just a glimpse into a world that I am just beginning to understand, a world I could never really explain in words.
Copyright © 2003 by Angelina Jolie
Cuprins
Contents
Foreword by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Introduction
Mission to Africa
Mission to Cambodia
Mission to Pakistan
Mission to Ecuador
Afterword
Maps
Recenzii
Jane Goodall, Ph.D., CBE Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace Angelina is living proof of the power we all have -- every one of us -- to make a difference. I was deeply moved by her descriptions of individual refugees struggling to live with dignity and hope, and found her personal commitment to be an inspiration. Angelina's journals document her awakening as a humanitarian activist and I hope they will move readers to act. I look forward to my continued work with Angelina on behalf of the United Nations.
Descriere
The moving journals of actress Angelina Jolie's travels as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commisioner for Refugees, through some of the world's poorest countries.