Movie star Angelina Jolie, seen here in 2005, has asked the organisation she named after her adopted Cambodian son to manage a conservation project in the north west of the country.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Movie star Angelina Jolie has asked the organization she named after her adopted Cambodian son to manage a conservation project in the north west of the country.
The project, which promotes wildlife conservation and development in northwestern Cambodia, had been run by two non-government organizations -- San Francisco-based WildAid and Cambodian Vision in Development.
But Jolie decided not to renew their contract when it came up last January, and instead gave the job this year to the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Project (MJP), said Stephan Bognar, executive director of the new group.
Jolie's group is named for her five-year-old son Maddox, who was adopted from Cambodia in 2002. The program operates in the former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Samlot in northwestern Cambodia.
As one of the last holdouts of the genocidal regime, the region is one of the most heavily mined areas in the country.
During the next five years, Jolie plans to invest more than 1.5 million dollars to build schools and health care centers, provide training for health workers, and construct public toilets and roads, Bognar said.
"We are doing a very big project in Samlot," he said.
"Angelina is not changing her attitude about investing in Cambodia. The opposite, she is increasing her commitment and increasing her financial commitment to the country," Bognar said.
Jolie has campaigned for environmental reform in the impoverished country, which has rewarded her work with citizenship, and last year gave her a Cambodian passport.
The actress fell in love with Cambodia while shooting "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" at the famed Angkor Wat temple in 2001, and owns a home in Samlot district of northwestern Battambang province.
The project, which promotes wildlife conservation and development in northwestern Cambodia, had been run by two non-government organizations -- San Francisco-based WildAid and Cambodian Vision in Development.
But Jolie decided not to renew their contract when it came up last January, and instead gave the job this year to the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Project (MJP), said Stephan Bognar, executive director of the new group.
Jolie's group is named for her five-year-old son Maddox, who was adopted from Cambodia in 2002. The program operates in the former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Samlot in northwestern Cambodia.
As one of the last holdouts of the genocidal regime, the region is one of the most heavily mined areas in the country.
During the next five years, Jolie plans to invest more than 1.5 million dollars to build schools and health care centers, provide training for health workers, and construct public toilets and roads, Bognar said.
"We are doing a very big project in Samlot," he said.
"Angelina is not changing her attitude about investing in Cambodia. The opposite, she is increasing her commitment and increasing her financial commitment to the country," Bognar said.
Jolie has campaigned for environmental reform in the impoverished country, which has rewarded her work with citizenship, and last year gave her a Cambodian passport.
The actress fell in love with Cambodia while shooting "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" at the famed Angkor Wat temple in 2001, and owns a home in Samlot district of northwestern Battambang province.
5 comments:
Ms. Jolie has the right to watch her money. If she deosn't feel right, there it goes...
Look out corrupt and uncreative government!
We hope the new group will do something more meaningful to our mighty forrest and the people living near by. Do we sence a professional Park Rangers combining with an organization for Camping experience thru vacationers and tourist? That would be dawn Maddox!
I love you, Jolie. You are a good person and generous that you contribute your money for Cambodia and other poor country. May god bless you and your family. Do good work.
Thank you very much, Jolie, for spending your own money saving wildlife in my graft-devastated country, Cambodia, but you must be always careful with those corrupt Cambodian government officials working with you as either partners or counterparts. You may be well aware that Cambodia is very notorious for corruption from top to bottom. May God bless you and your family for your good deeds and generosity.
Jolie is right to not trust Cambodians to run things. They have such a bad reputation internationally for corruptions etc. Most foreign agents and charity workers will confirm this.I can see Jolie on TV in the USA talking about her trip to Cambodia and, her mentioning it.It send out a bad image of Cambodia. Why bother opening up centre for helping Cambodians when officals are so corrupts etc.
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