American actress and humanitarian volunteer Angelina Jolie is currently in Pakistan to meet the victims of the recent floods, during which ...
American actress and humanitarian volunteer Angelina Jolie is currently in Pakistan to meet the victims of the recent floods, during which she also visited the National Flood Response Coordination Center.
On this occasion, NFRCC Deputy Chairman Ahsan Iqbal welcomed them and thanked them for coming to Pakistan during the worst floods in the country's history.
The actress arrived in Pakistan on Tuesday afternoon and visited Dadu where she reviewed the flood devastation and met the victims. .
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He said that there are often countries that don't have as much but still give more than others and now we see that these are the countries that cause less damage to the environment and that destruction. , suffer and die.
It should be noted that Angelina Jolie had earlier visited Pakistan to meet the victims of the 2010 floods and the 2005 earthquake.
She is currently visiting as a member of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) Emergency Response Operations.
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"I'm absolutely with you in urging the international community to do more," the American actress said.
"I think this is a real 'wake-up call' to the world about where we (stand), climate change is not only real but coming and almost here," he said.
It should be noted that actress Angelina Jolie is a Special Ambassador of the United Nations Committee for Refugees (UNHCR) and served as a Goodwill Ambassador for the Committee for 11 years.
"Even as someone who has been a part of humanitarian aid for years, we often look at a crisis and think, 'How can we solve it, what can we do, what can we build, what can we build,'" he said. Help or feed and now we are in a situation where the needs are so great and every effort is a matter of life and death for so many people.
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"I have seen every current effort, I have been with my colleagues in the army and the IRC, I have seen that lives have been saved but I am talking to people and thinking if If not enough aid is received, they will not be here in the next few weeks.
The actress said that she will not be able to survive, many children here are suffering from severe malnutrition and even if she survives for the next few months, winter is coming, crops and farming are destroyed, but I also want to say this. Doesn't seem fair because I'm not going through it, so I can only try to talk and help.
She said she can't imagine what it feels like to be in that situation.
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