War in Ukraine: Angelina Jolie, very moved, meets refugee children in the Vatican
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The actress with a powerful commitment, Angelina Jolie, was at the Vatican this week, where she was able to meet refugee children in a hospital. This meeting highlights the disastrous situation of the Ukrainian population since the beginning of the war waged by Russia. Indeed, it is estimated that already 60% of the country’s children have had to leave their homes…
Huge Hollywood star Angelina Jolie traveled to Rome to visit Ukrainian refugee children hosted at the Vatican. The actress, who received a Catholic education, devotes a lot of time to her work for the protection of refugees in the United Nations.
The children are currently being cared for and accommodated at the Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital.
So it was in the Vatican that she met Ukrainian children who arrived in Italy because of the war that reigns in their territory of origin, some of them are even very sick.
The invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s Russian forces that began on February 24 has already forced millions of Ukrainians to flee their country.
Another Hollywood actor Sean Penn had also traveled to Europe to follow the conflict. In this case, he had met with President Volodymyr Zelensky to produce a documentary on the wars in Eastern Europe.
War in Ukraine: Angelina Jolie, very moved, meets refugee children in the Vatican
UNICEF even estimates that 2 million refugee children have left Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict and 2.5 million have been internally displaced. It is estimated that 60% of the country’s children have had to say goodbye to their homes in recent weeks.
Jolie also took the opportunity to meet the doctors and nurses on the spot who take care of the refugees. “Like many others, I pray for the end of the war. This is the only way to stop suffering and displacement. It’s horrible to see children paying the price, in lives lost, in health damaged and in trauma,” she said.
The star of the recent Marvel film The Eternals is a woman deeply committed to defending refugees around the world.
She was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2013 and has been recognized as a Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees since 2012. Since then, she has undertaken dozens of trips around the world to visit refugee camps such as Yemen, Burkina Faso, Venezuela,
War in Ukraine: Angelina Jolie, very moved, meets refugee children in the Vatican
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