Angelina Jolie is known for her large role in activism and she is teaching daughter Shiloh the importance of a helping hand as they traveled to Turkey for World Refugee Day.
In the past, Jolie has visited refugee camps in Syria and Iraq, and now she brought daughter Shiloh along to Turkey to visit another refugee camp on Saturday, June 20 for World Refugee Day. Jolie has a strong voice on the issue and calls for world leaders’ involvement calling it the “worst refugee crisis ever recorded.”
Angelina Jolie and husband Brad Pitt even put out a statement online expressing their concern:
“Our world has never been richer or healthier or more advanced. Yet never before have so many people been dispossessed and stripped of their basic human rights[…]People are running out of places to run to. If you are an Iraqi or a Syrian fleeing violence, where do you go? Every border country is being pushed beyond its limits.”
Working with the United Nations on the ongoing refugee issue, there just has not been enough funds to help every person that Angelina Jolie has gone out to see. Still, she continues to educate herself on the issue by going out to the scene herself and is even ensuring that her children stay educated as well.
She continues in her statement:
“We should see this time in displacement as the time where we should take the most care, and give the most support. Not because they are vulnerable, but because in fact they are the future stability of all the countries we say we are so concerned about. We must protect them, and invest in them. They are not a problem, they are part of the solution to the global crisis. They are the potential for the rebuilding and restabilization of countries.”
Jolie’s biggest hope is that people in power come out first-hand to experience the difficulties that many families face within refugees. Jolie said,
“I call, again on the United Nations Security Council: Send your ministers and ambassadors here. Witness this crisis for yourself. See that it simply cannot go on. And that it is past time for a credible plan to reach a political solution to end the conflict.”
Image: Via Flickr/Gage Skidmore
