They’re better than us, and it’s okay!
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt‘s Jolie-Pitt Foundation has made a $2 million donation to the Global Health Committee to establish a new clinic in Ethiopia for children suffering from AIDs and tuberculosis.
Their daughter, Zahara, was adopted from the African nation.
In a statement, Angelina said, “Our goal is to transfer the success we have had in Cambodia to Ethiopia where people are needlessly dying of tuberculosis, a curable disease, and HIV/AIDS, a treatable disease.”
The family’s Cambodian center is named after their eldest son, Maddox, who was adopted from that South East Asian country.
They’ll name the Ethiopian center after Zahara.
In a statement Brad said, “It is our hope when Zahara is older she will take responsibility of the clinic and continue its mission.”
Tuberculosis causes approximately 2 million deaths yearly, and is the largest cause of death worldwide for children and adults with AIDS.
Brad went on to say, “The fact that poor people continue to die in our world today of TB, a curable disease, because of lack of access to drugs and care is unacceptable.”
It’s good to see that baby picture money is going to good causes!
[Image via WENN.]
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