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Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador Kindle Edition
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPocket Books
- Publication dateNovember 1, 2007
- File size2743 KB
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I was asked to write an introduction to my journals, to explain how my journals came to be, why my life took this direction, and why I decided to start it.
As I try to find the answers, I am sure of one thing: I am forever changed. I am so grateful I took this path in my life, thankful that I met these amazing people and had this incredible experience.
I honestly believe that if we were all aware, we would all be compelled to act.
So the question is not how or why I would do this with my life. The question is, how could I not?
Many nights I sat awake reading stories and statistics about national and international tragedies.
I read about UNHCR:
More than twenty million refugees exist today.
One-sixth of the world's population lives on less than one dollar a day.
1.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water.
One-third of the world has no electricity.
More than 100 million children are out of school.
One in six children in Africa dies before the age of five.
I read about different organizations that do humanitarian work. I had been reading about Sierra Leone when I was in England. When I got back to the States it was difficult to follow the stories, so I called USA for UNHCR and asked if they could help me understand the situation there and similar situations elsewhere in the world. Three weeks later I was in Sierra Leone.
I don't know how this will be as a book, how readers will find it. I am not a writer. These are just my journals. They are just a glimpse into a world that I am just beginning to understand, a world I could never really explain in words.
Copyright © 2003 by Angelina Jolie --This text refers to the paperback edition.
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- ASIN : B001EM10IO
- Publisher : Pocket Books (November 1, 2007)
- Publication date : November 1, 2007
- Language : English
- File size : 2743 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 256 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,592,363 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #46 in Pakistan Travel Guides
- #97 in Cambodia Travel Guides
- #277 in Ecuador & Galapagos Islands Travel (Books)
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I'm so impressed by the things that people can do to each other, and how the survivors of this hatred and spite keep on with their lives after such harsh and traumatic experiences stay tattooed on their s...more I enjoyed this book very much, although it tensed me at times, and made me cry at others. It's the story of many refugees around the world, and the humanitarian work Angelina Jolie has done to help them out. It's an account of her early years as Good Will Ambassador for the UNHCR.
I'm so impressed by the things that people can do to each other, and how the survivors of this hatred and spite keep on with their lives after such harsh and traumatic experiences stay tattooed on their souls. By the end of the book I couldn't stop asking myself the same thing that Angelina asked herself all along: how do they survive at all!
Angelina starts her journal by saying that she's not different from other people, but she wants to help. To me that alone makes her different. Not everyone cares about other fellow beings. She's different in so many ways and she makes a difference with all her humanitarian work.
I can understand why the UNHCR agency has such high rates of suicide and depression. Reading books about other countries who live in permanent terror like the ones she describes always depresses me, even though I'm thousands of miles away culturally and physically, and safe behind the soft pages of the book. I can't imagine the emotional scars that all those persons are left with when they are lucky enough to keep their lives. Anonymous to the rest of the world and yet still very valuable lives. Dead just seems such a high price to pay for respect and integrity. I can't imagine where they gather the strength to keep smiling.
It would be easier, less risky and less emotionally demanding to just send funds from the comfort of her home, and yet she is willing to share with all these people her time helping out in whatever ways she can. And that's why it's so admirable what she does. It's easy to mourn the dead, but it's hard to help the living. To all those refugees she is just some woman who wants to help. A remarkable woman with noble feelings. She masters beautiful gestures that make people feel good and loved and recognized and valued, and that alone can be more important than having a lot of other things that seem necessary and are necessary for all of them, but not any more so than the grace and beauty of a person whose mere existence makes it possible for them to keep their hopes up.
As I read once, you can train thousands or millions of political theorists and economists and theologians and bureaucrats, but charm and charisma, and the desire to put celebrity to good use: hundreds of years of training can't teach that or invent it. And Angelina has what it takes to make all this happen. I can't help those people because I don't have the economic resources to do so. But I'm grateful that there are people like her out there who are willing to share what they have, and to sacrifice some of her own comfort to help out. It's a good read if you want to sensitize yourself about some world issues.
Her writting is straighforward and does try to tell the tales mildly. She describes the truth. The true stories of the victims of many conflicts.
It is quite wonderful to be able to see these events through her eyes, eyes that are not trained to understand them, but to feel them, just like our own eyes.
Some stories might make you feel sick and to wonder how men could possibly do this, but they also show us the will of amazing people who have been through many unfortunate events and still have the will to live on.
This book will help you understand some conflicts that happen in our world and will also make you grateful for what you have in your life, as most people in the stories have nothing at all.
Everyone should read it.
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There were many times when her words moved me to tears, particularly in relation to countries I've also been to, and seen first-hand some of the situations she writes about (e.g. Cambodia). After I finished this book, I immediately visited the UNHCR website to read more of her field notes. I now have an even greater respect for Ms Jolie, and find I am far more interested in her work as a UN Goodwill Ambassador and Special Envoy, than I am in her 'day job'!
Angelina Jolie is truly one of the world's good guys, not just because of her work for the United Nations but because of *all* the causes she helps, and because, quite simply, she not only cares but cares enough to take action. She is a wonderful example of Noblesse Oblige - of someone using their privilege to help others - and I hope that through this book, and her work, she inspires others to follow suit.
Una maravilla, lo recomiendo 100%.
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