Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador

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Simon and Schuster, 2007 M11 1 - 256 pages
From actress and activist Angelina Jolie comes the personal journals she compiled while performing humanitarian relief efforts in such countries as Sierra Leone and Tanzania, Pakistan and Cambodia.

When award-winning actress Angelina Jolie took on a radically different role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), she was determined to document everything she witnessed and experienced. Here are her memoirs from her journeys to Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Pakistan, Cambodia, and Ecuador, where she lived and worked and gave her heart to those who suffer the world’s most shattering violence and victimization. Here are her revelations of joy and warmth amid utter destitution...compelling snapshots of courageous and inspiring people for whom survival is their daily work, and candid notes from a unique pilgrimage that completely changed her worldview—and the world within herself.
 

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Mission to Pakistan
133
Mission to Ecuador
193
Afterword
237
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Page viii - UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established by the General Assembly in 1951.

About the author (2007)

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.

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