Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie Donate $1 Million to Refugees

Celebrity News June 18, 2009 AT 10:06AM
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt attend the Inglourious Basterds premiere on May 20, 2009 in Cannes, France. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt attend the Inglourious Basterds premiere on May 20, 2009 in Cannes, France. Credit: Eric Ryan/Getty Images

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have donated $1 million to the U.N. refugee agency providing aid to displaced people in Pakistan.

The head of the agency, António Guterres, thanked the Jolie-Pitt Foundation for the generous donation, calling Pakistan's plight "the most challenging humanitarian crisis of the past decade." (More than 2 million people are currently displaced in the country.)

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Since becoming a goodwill ambassador for the agency in 2001, Jolie has visited refugees in Pakistan three times. (She took Pitt with her on a 2005 trip.)

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Earlier this week, her beau Pitt created the Pediatric Cancer Center, named after his mother, in his hometown of Springfield, Mo.

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