Hollywood actress visits refugee camp in Thailand

(20 May 2002)

1. WS Tham Hin camp
2. WS Thai guards
3. VS Angelina Jolie in camp
4. MS children
5. WS dancers in school building
6. WS dancers
7. CU Angelina Jolie smiling while watching dancers
8. Rear of her head, dancers in background
9. MS dancers
10. Angelina Jolie applauds dancers
11. CU child
12. SOT Angelina Jolie: "I've been to camps that are better and camps that are worse. So I think every camp is very different. And I'm always surprised by the people, because you ask them and you see them in these different situations and I think none of us could be comfortable in, and they don't complain. They want things for their children, they want to make sure their children have a future."
13. WS ext.school building; people looking in
14. Angelina hands over gifts
15. WS refugees in school building
16. Angelina puts on traditional ethnic Karen dress
17. WS children
18. SOT Angelina Jolie: "The film is secondary to these people. And I think if anything, having been to these camps, having met these real people, I've never been so nervous wanting to make sure a film does justice to the topics, and the people it represents. So I'm very very nervous they get it right, and I think they have and they've taken a lot of care but it's more you know, my heart's more for here than for the film and the film business."
19. CU Angelina hands as untie footballs
20. WS Angelina gives balls to crowd of children
21. CU child
22. SOT Angelina Jolie: "The children are beautiful. They're very shy. In every country they're different. In Africa they come up to you and hold, you know, they're very sweet. Am I gonna adopt ? I'd love to adopt. Yeah I would, another child. I think wherever there's a need, I don't know, it's a natural thing that I think happens. I go to a country, and I think my husband gets very nervous every time I go to a country."
23. WS Angelina leaves school building
24. WS children
25. Angelina smiles and shows off dress
26. MS children
27 Angelina with children, who push each other
28. WS Angelina gets in car to leave


JOLIE BRINGS JOY TO REFUGEES

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie donated $100,000 to aid refugees after a heart-rending visit to an impoverished camp in Western Thailand Sunday.

The Tomb raider star was mobbed by children as she toured the camp and inspected the living conditions for thousands of refugees from neighbouring Myanmar.

The Oscar-winning actress, who has been in northern Thailand filming a romantic adventure movie about relief workers, traveled to the camp in her role as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR.

Jolie tossed plastic soccer balls to the throngs of children who greeted her at the Tham Hin refugee camp in Ratchaburi province, 95 kilometers (59 miles) west of Bangkok.

Wearing a blue U.N. cap and sandals, Jolie toured Tham Hin's classrooms and job training facilities. Later she pulled on a traditional ethnic dress given to her at the camp.

Jolie's interest in the region became very personal when she and her husband, Billy Bob Thornton, adopted a Cambodian orphan, last month, and she hinted that their could be another addition to the family soon.

"Am I gonna adopt ? I'd love to adopt. Yeah I would, another child. I think wherever there's a need, I don't know, it's a natural thing that I think happens. I go to a country, and I think my husband gets very nervous every time I go to a country."



"Every time you ask (refugees) where they would most like to live, they always say they want to go home," she said.






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