Dimensions
135 x 210 x 23mm
Visits With Refugees In Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador.
Three years ago, award-winning actress Angelina Jolie took on a radically different role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). 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 victimisation.
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 the actress's worldview - and the world within herself.
'The children here grab your hands and walk with you smiling and singing. They have nothing. They are wearing ripped dusty clothes and they are smiling . . .
I hate that everyone is suffering - the amputees, the refugees, the displaced persons . . . How do you tell them to start to build their lives back when they are sure that the rebels will just take it away again?
Tonight we had fish and salad. It was a big luxury. I was grateful but I had trouble eating. I felt so hollow . . .
I am in awe of these people. Their will. Their hope . . .
There is so much more happening around the world than what is communicated to us. We all need to look deeper and discover for ourselves . . .'
Angelina Jolie is donating the proceeds from this book to the UNHCR.
