Brad Pitt @ Clinton Global Initiative

Skipping over all the stupid trolls, it’s great that Brad is getting involved. He’s been blessed and wants to give back.

Some say that Angelina is a positive influence to him. I would agree. I also feel that Brad has been a very powerful influence on Angelina, so much so that many jealous people claimed they liked the “old” Angelina better.

They have been a positive influence to each other and that’s how a relationship should be. Their exes, IMO, were not positive influences to them.

That is all.

Credit:Mara Belle at JJB

http://www.unhcr.org/events/46e7db842.html

Angelina Jolie and UNHCR promote education at Clinton Global Initiative

THAM HIN REFUGEE CAMP, Thailand (UNHCR) - In Thailand refugee toddlers get a pre-school headstart on education and teenagers learn vital computer skills. In Azerbaijan refugee children have new playgrounds and learn to swim. In Uganda, thousands of refugee children are getting text books for the first time.

The unifying reason in these countries, together with help provided in Kenya, Liberia and Chad, is the funds raised through the ninemillion programme to help children driven from their homes by conflict and violence. The progamme is about to grow - with a goal of enhancing education for nine million children by 2010.

UN High Commissioner for Refugee António Guterres and UNHCR’s Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie will join former US president Bill Clinton at the September 26-28 meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, issuing a call to raise $220 million for refugee education. The CGI aims to inspire commitments of help from its members.

The UNHCR programme is aimed at providing Education (Plus) - education beyond the existing schooling now offered by UNHCR - to nine million refugee children by 2010. Education (Plus) will provide resources to develop a child’s full potential, with an emphasis on girls’ participation and additional activities like life-skills training, sport programs, disease prevention and access to technology.

Started in 2006, ninemillion has so far raised over US$ 2 million. These funds are already allocated to education and sport programmes in Thailand, Azerbaijan and Uganda. New projects are on the way.

The efforts of ninemillion are shifting towards improving education in three conflict zones around the world - Colombia, Iraq’s neighbours and Sudan’s Darfur region with its spillover into Chad. The potential benefits can be seen in places where extra UNHCR education assistance has already been provided.

Growing up in a refugee camp in Thailand, Aye Hla’s first three children didn’t have a chance to study beyond Grade Six. But she has higher hopes for her youngest son, Lweh Say, whom she cuddles in her lap on the floor of a new nursery school.

“I hope he can be an educated person, and this is a good start,” she says, gesturing around the large airy thatched building built and equipped with funds from the UNHCR-led ninemillion initiative. Thanks to the money raised for education and sports, refugee toddlers in Thailand are getting a pre-school head start, and refugee teenagers are learning vital computer skills.

In Azerbaijan, children of refugees and internally displaced people have learned to swim and to make healthy choices in life. New playgrounds have given 30,000 children a safe and fun place to play. In Uganda, thousands of refugee children are getting their own textbooks and school supplies for the first time, and teachers are getting real blackboards for desperately ill-equipped classrooms.

The conflict that Lweh Say’s ethnic Karen parents fled in Myanmar has been simmering for nearly six decades. But in Tham Hin refugee camp along the Thai-Myanmar border, his family is getting a chance for a brighter future: They are among thousands being considered for resettlement to the United States.

“The headstart he’s getting here will help him when we get to America,” says Aye Hla, referring to the nursery school’s “play and learning space”, which supports creative learning through special toys.

At a new computer centre that complements the normal curriculum for older children, ninemillion supplied the electricity to run the computers, and lessons are limited to 20 minutes each because there are so few computers.

Even so, enthusiastic students whizz through the basic English needed to follow the lessons and have learned to type. Some are even mastering Microsoft’s Powerpoint presentations. “I know my future will be good if I get a computer education,” says a confident 15-year-old girl named Naw Say Paw. “I know the computer is used all over the world.”

These serious issues of education will be discussed when Guterres and Jolie attend the deliberations of the CGI in New York, hoping to draw commitments of assistance from the influential participants.

As a person who ACTUALLY GREW UP ON NEW ORLEANS, I applaud Brad’s efforts. I applaud the efforts of EVERYONE who has done ANYTHING to help rebuild that once great city. When the hurricane happened, so many stars were quick to write a check and forget about it but New Orleanians want to GO HOME!!

Thanks to all who have done ANYTHING to help this city.

79 joke of the day : 09/26/2007 at 3:19 pm
Can you imagin STYLE ask these questions?I probably can,don`t know about you.

STYLE:WHY HE DIDN`T TALK ABOUT HIS LOVE FOR ANGIE TODAY IN HIS SPEECH,WHY HE DIDN`T DEFEND HER IN HIS SPEECH?WHY HE DIDN`T DENY TABLOIDS ARTICLES TODAY IN HIS SPEECH?WHY HE DIDN`T TALK HOW MUCH HE NEEDS ANGIE BY HIS SIDE RIGHT NOW?WHY HE DIDN`T SAY HE WANTS TO KISS HER LIPS DURING HIS SPEECH?WHY HE DOESN`T COME TO TV DAILY AND CONFESS HIS LOVE FOR HER?WHY IN ABOVE PICS HE HAS SMILE IN HIS LIPS(HE SHOULD SMILE JUST WHEN HE IS WITH ANGIE)?WHY IN ONE OF THESE PHOTO HE IS NOT SMILING?HE WANTS TO SAY TO WORLD I`M NOT HAPPY WITH MY LIFE?WHY HE DIDN`T SHAVE WHEN HE WAS IN JJ`S PREMIERE?WHY NOW THAT HE IS ALONE HE SHAVED?WHAT IS HE TRYING TO SAY?ANGIE PLEASE LIVE HE(CONSIDER NOT HIM YOU SHOULD USE HE).YOU WILL FIND ONE MAN THAT WILL GO TO TV AND WILL GIVE INTERVIEW DAILY JUST TO SAY I LOVE ANGIE.HE WILL DEFEND YOU FROM TABS JUST TO SHOW HOW MUCH HE CARES ABOUT THEM AND HE IS READING THEM YOU NEED THIS MAN NOT BRAD.

I`m sure she will ask these question,so I bring them sooner than her,right now she is trying to understand how to write her thought(those above question)in her comment.

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YES YOU JOKE, BUT YOU KNOW THAT I SAY THE TRUE.
I REPEAT:
AND WHY HE DENIED OTHER RUMORS LIKE ZEE OPERATION, ADOPT OTHER CHILD AND MORE?
WHY HE DEFEND AND DENIED THE RUMORS WHEN HE WAS WITH X?
WHY HE SPEAK LOVELY ABOUT HIS X?
WHY HE DON´T SPEAK LOVELY IN A IMPORTANT INTERVIEW ABOUT ANGIE?
THESE LAST WEEKS, THE RUMORS WERE BRAD SAD, BRAD STILL LOVE JEN, BRAD UNHAPPY AND MORE.
AND BRAD NOT SAID SOMETHING.
SPEAK ABOUT BRAD´S ACTION NOT ABOUT ME.
MAYBE YOU CAN´T RESPONSE BRAD´S ACTIONS MAYBE??

AND GOODBYE I GO TO DINNER.
BUT I BACK DON´T WORRY.

73 coalharbourqt : 09/26/2007 at 3:14 pm
LIVE LINK HERE:

http://video.clintonglobalinitiative.org/health_cast/player_cgi2007.cfm?id=3495
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Thanks CHQT for reposting the link. I finally figured out how to get the video to play (just download the Window program, duh!) I am not computer savvy for sure. Hope I can catch AJ’s part this time.

I have to say this really sucks for those of us who can’t see anything. Appreciate the CGI summaries, but it’s like watching kids eat ice cream and you can’t have any. DARN!!!

WHAT HAPPENED TO EVERYONE IGNORING THE STUPID AZZ TROLLS??? JUST ENJOY ALL THE GREAT THINGS ANGIE AND BRAD ARE DOING TODAY AND DON’T GET SIDETRACKED BY TROLLS POSTING STUPID STUFF. COME ON PEOPLE, YOU ARE BETTER THAN THIS!

That Ted Turner story was from 10 years ago (1997), $1 billion over the next decade. That means it should have ended in 2007.

People ar very harsh to critisise Brad and Leo etc. They are trying to do the right thing. Their work and lifestyle keeps them consuming more than the average person. If people like them start taking on these challanges then so many people will follow. At least Brad is smart about it and chooses a practical idea like sustainabe housing. He could make this popular to a mass audience.

I have watched the video up to the luncheon break, and continued watching after lunc. But I haven’t seen Brad yet. I’ve seen pictures that were posted on JJ’s. When does Brad speak? Peace

Damn Brad looks hot - even when he’s talking about the environment :p

Angelina really have expand Brad’s horizon’s!! Angelina has been a good influence on Brad!! And this is one of the many reasons; Haters hate Angelina so much; because with Maniston Brad was soo Shallow, but since Brad has been with Angie… he is in another level!! Brad was right when he said that after meeting Angie… he became a new man!!