Angelina Jolie - Mission to Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Russia. Jordan, etc.

Angelina Jolie In 2003, she embarked on a six-day mission to Tanzania where Angelina Jolie traveled to western border camps, hosting Congolese refugees and Angelina Jolie paid a week-long visit to Sri Lanka.

Angelina Jolie later concluded a four-day mission to Russia as Angelina Jolie traveled to North Caucasus. Concurrently with the release of her movie Beyond Borders she published Notes from My Travels, a collection of journal entries that chronicle her early field missions (2001–2002).

During a private stay in Jordan in December 2003 she asked to visit Iraqi refugees in Jordan's eastern desert and later that month she went to Egypt to meet Sudanese refugees.

Angelina Jolie - Field missions around the world

Angelina Jolie has been on field missions around the world and met with refugees and internally displaced persons in more than 20 countries.

Asked what Angelina Jolie hoped to accomplish, she stated, "Awareness of the plight of these people. I think they should be commended for what they have survived, not looked down upon."

In 2002, Angelina Jolie visited the Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailand and Colombian refugees in Ecuador. Angelina Jolie later went to various UNHCR facilities in Kosovo and paid a visit to Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya with refugees mainly from Sudan. Angelina Jolie also met with Angolan refugees while filming Beyond Borders in Namibia.

Angelina Jolie - Worldwide humanitarian, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador

Angelina Jolie 1st became personally aware of worldwide humanitarian crises while filming Tomb Raider in Cambodia. Angelina Jolie eventually turned to UNHCR for more information on international trouble spots.

In the following months Angelina Jolie visited refugee camps around the world to learn more about the situation and the conditions in these areas. In February 2001, Angelina Jolie went on her 1st field visit, an 18-day mission to Sierra Leone and Tanzania; Angelina Jolie later expressed her shock at what she had witnessed.

In the coming months Angelina Jolie returned to Cambodia for two weeks and later met with Afghan refugees in Pakistan where she donated $1 million for Afghan refugees in response to an international UNHCR emergency appeal.

Angelina Jolie insisted on covering all costs related to her missions and shared the same rudimentary working and living conditions as UNHCR field staff on all of her visits. Angelina Jolie was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador on August 27, 2001 at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva.