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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have donated $100,000 to help build the first modern medical facility in Duk County, Sudan called “The Duk Lost Boys Clinic.”
The donation was mad through their Jolie-Pitt Foundation and will go directly to to Direct Change, a nonprofit that raises financial support for grassroots projects in Africa.
Said John Dau, the Director of Direct Change’s Sudan Project, “Words cannot express my gratitude and gratitude of the people of Duk County Sudan. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt demonstrate the American spirit of generosity. Hopefully, their donation will inspire others to join with us to rebuild southern Sudan.”
Dau’s story was featured in the documentary God Grew Tired of Us, which Brad executive produced. The facility is scheduled to open later this spring and serve upwards of 150,000 people.
In adoptions news… Brad and Angelina will reportedly earn $2.3 million for photographs of their newly adopted son, Pax. The couple earned a reported $4.7 million for photographs of of daughter Shiloh just after she was born.
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on a thread of people they Hate~~~~ hahaha~~~ priceless!!
I love it.
BAMPZS >4 ever!!
Billionaire opens mansions to homeless
By AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press Writer
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HONOLULU - Dorie-Ann Kahale and her five daughters moved from a homeless shelter to a mansion Thursday, courtesy of a Japanese real estate mogul who is handing over eight of his multimillion-dollar homes to low-income Native Hawaiian families.
Tears spilled down Kahale’s cheeks as she accepted from billionaire Genshiro Kawamoto the key to a white, columned house with a circular driveway, a stone staircase and a deep porcelain bathtub. Her family will live there rent-free, but must pay utility bills.
“I’m shocked. I’m overwhelmed,” Kahale said. “From the little box we had to what we have today.”
Kawamoto, whose own eyes started welling up as Kahale cried, handed over two other homes Thursday to homeless or low-income families.
Kawamoto, one of Japan’s richest men, said he plans to open eight of his 22 Kahala homes to needy Hawaiian families. They will be able to stay in the homes for up to 10 years, he said. He also gave each family 10 $100 bills to help them move in.
Native Hawaiians are disproportionately represented among the state’s homeless and working poor.
Kawamoto owns dozens of office buildings in Tokyo under the name Marugen and his been buying and selling real estate in Hawaii and California since the 1980s.
He has been criticized for evicting tenants of his rental homes on short notice so he could sell the properties, as in 2002 when he gave hundreds of California tenants 30 days to leave.
Two years later, he served eviction notices to tenants in 27 Oahu rental homes, mostly in pricey Hawaii Kai, saying they had to leave within a month. He said he wanted to sell the houses to take advantage of rising prices.
Kawamoto selected the eight low-income families from 3,000 people who wrote him letters last fall after he announced his plan. He has said he tried to pick working, single mothers.
Giving away mansions shows more dedication to helping Hawaii’s homeless than just handing out wads of cash, he said. Asked whether he was concerned about losing money on the effort, he laughed and said: “This is pocket money for me.”
Kahale’s new house is worth nearly $5 million, an average price for the mansion-like dwellings on Kahala Avenue. It is one of the more modest homes in the neighborhood, many of which feature ornate iron gates, meandering driveways and sculptured gardens.
Kahale became homeless two years ago when her landlord raised her rent from $800 to $1,200, putting the apartment beyond reach of her salary as customer service representative for Pacific LightNet, a telecommunications company. She first stayed with relatives, then moved to a shelter in September.
“What we need to do is appreciate,” Kahale said after getting the keys to her new house. “As fast as we got it, it could disappear.”
Some neighbors are unhappy with Kawamoto’s plan, speculating that he is trying to drive down real estate values so he can snap up even more homes.
“Everyone’s paying homage to him, but in reality, he’s the problem,” said Mark Blackburn, who lives down the street from Kahale’s new home. “Houses are homes. They’re made to live in; they aren’t investment vehicles.”
He suggested that the Waianae Coast, a heavily Hawaiian community on the other side of Oahu that has been hit hard by homelessness, would have been a better place for Kawamoto to carry out his charity work.
Kawamoto countered that those in the Kahala neighborhood who don’t want Hawaiians next door might want to leave the islands altogether.
“The people who don’t want to live near Hawaiians should move,” Kawamoto said.
Lyn Worley, 40, who got the key to another Kawamoto house, said she believes her neighbors will grow to love her family.
The elementary school clerk has been living in a house in Waianae with her five children and brother for the past four years. Their lease ran out — and then Kawamoto’s offer came along.
“We prayed so hard and cried so much for God to drop something from the skies, and he did,” Worley said. “And he did, he really, really did.”
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coalharbourqt Says:
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:10 pm - flag comment
HELLO PEOPLE - It is Dau, the Director of the Project, who is talking about the donation. Brad and Angelina aren’t ‘advertising’ anything! It is common practice for charities/projects/foundations to acknowledge a large contribution by making a press release because it draws attention to the said charity and other people get on the bandwagon. I guess that is too logical for the detractors to understand?! God they are stupid sometimes.
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We told them that in the other thread, but it went right over their head!
Hey y’all……even tho that creature “Afraid” and its post have been obliterated, it has only just occurred to me that its very likely that some religious fundamentalist nutjob(s) who share the same sentiments, may be planning and plotting to physically harm Angie and/or Shi. I would definitely not dismiss such mental cases because they have shown themselves to be more than capable of carrying out atrocities in the name of religion…………heck, thats done even on a national scale all over the world everyday!
But i kid you not………..i read the post and immediately what came to mind was the Omen series of movies. Well, forewarned is fore-armed as they say so i expect that BAMPZS security is tight!
Oh Please:
I’ve been on a bit of a break. My project is just too intense and have a couple days left of good solid coding.
So, attribute that analogy to a bunch of whole day tv veggin’ and web-surfin’ and emailin’ and relaxin’….Hahahaha!! I’m such a BUM today!! Hahahaha!
I tell ya’ this project is sucking the life out of me…
~Websurfer
#70.. someone brought up the fact that Tom donates and he doesn’t publish it, well, I said he donates to his SCIENTOLOGY, lots of people don’t agree with SCIENTOLOGY that’s why it doesn’t make headlines@
I’m not a fan of Tom and I think he is a freak, I am a fan of BRANGELINA and fam and they call him many names as well so there! figure of speech!
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Websurfer Says:
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:18 pm - flag comment
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That analogy was so apt. At least Glen Close’s character got laid in that movie.
There’s a whole lot of tension that’s not getting spent right or well with these others.
Pray for all stuffed bunnies. Pray.
websurfer I think you scared “afraid” lol lol!!!
OK, I agree no one called her a saint here, but that’s what some of you are implying. How can someone as Tom Cruise become a freak if he also donates same or prolly bigger amount than Angie? Bottom line is, they are both donating. No need to call the guy a freak!
Doesn’t take much to strike fear to someone who is already [tatatatum...] AFRAID.
Hahahaha!!!
~Websurfer
okay fine I take it back Tom is no a freak!!
hahahahahh!! I am so laughing with you websurfer!
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Websurfer Says:
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Surf’s up! ;-) Let’s just ignore the bunny boilers!
Loving this pic by the way - it was taken when Angelina and Brad were in Haiti meeting with Wyclef Jean about Yele Haiti - Angie was preggers with Shiloh then. What a long way BAMPZS has come!
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jessicajohnmayer Says:
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Nobody here is calling Angelina a Saint - she is flesh and blood, a human with faults, just like the rest of us. And all of her fans know that. What you are failing to distinguish is the difference between donating to a Third World Charity and the donations that TC makes to his own cult, which benefits only other members of the said cult. Personally, I could care less what TC does with his money, but I just wouldn’t compare the type of contribution he makes to that of Angelina and Brad, who help people in real need. The people who join Scientology have to have money to pay for the courses etc. so it is logical to assume that they are not ‘needy’ per se. Most are middle class North Americans. Does that make better sense to you now?
And we, the BAMPZS fans, are the ones that bump back.
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CHARITY GETS PR NO JUST FOR BRANGELINA Says:
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:15 pm - flag comment
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Thank you for posting this article. It was reported on CNN and I was very happy that another person with a lot. Is trying to do his part to help out those less fortunate.
I was stationed in Hawaii at Schofield Barracks and and had to live off-base until housing came available, talking about being expensive.
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Oh Please Says:
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LOL - I’m prayin’, I’m prayin’!! :-)
YEAH!!! Grind that big, round bump!!
The bigger the more skinny bumps you send out to sea of no return.
OK - I’ve been on the tv today for too long! Hehehe!
~Websurfer
Hey Guli
Did You see the ending of the game. OSU just barely pulled it off!
Man that was another on the edge of the seat game.
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jessicajohnmayer Says:
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I don’t think ppl are calling him a freak based off of him donating money. The could be calling him a freak due to his behavior like jumping on innocent pieces of furniture and just seeming a little off during a simple interview.
# 94
Don’t you wish you could change your life around like she did?
Maybe there’s still hope for you.
#89 thanks for backing me up about TC!
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jolie-brother-french-kisser Says:
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No I have been a fan of Angelina Jolie since Hackers….the JLM days. Cutting herself…..she did that as a teen and basic unknown.
Honest question for you: Why are you here? you won’t convince anyone here to her hate just b/c you do and don’t you think it’s a little bit obesses for you to be here posting in threads that don’t really interest you? Of ppl you don’t like and post with fans that do?
#94
Yawn…. yawn…..yawn…
stupid question.
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jolie-brother-french-kisser Says:
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:34 pm - flag comment
QUESTION: does all of you care about Jolie when she was still with Billy Bob thorton? when she was cutting herself and frenchkissing her brother in oscar? or you just became obssesed with her after she hooked up with pitt?
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All this stuff that you mentioned is in her past, when she was in her 20s; why are you still so obssessed with it? Can a person not sow wild oats and then outgrow it and be respected? Drew Barrymore was a major alcoholic and drug dependent at age 15 or thereabouts, she pulled herself up by her bootstraps and is now a lovely, gracious movie star/producer at 32. Why can’t Angelina be accorded the same respect?
I have been of fan of Angie’s from way back..before BBT. There is no one else like her in the whole world. She is one of a kind.
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