ANGELINA JOLIE VISITED COLOMBIAN REFUGEES IN ECUADOR
Ecuador receives almost 56.000 refugees, It keep a
study of 21.000 requests of shelters and it receives an average of 1.300 requests
of protection each month. The Colombian people constitute the most population
of refugges of Latin America, it confirmed
ACNUR. The actress Angelina Jolie
visited to dozens of Colombian refugees in the frontier zone between Ecuador
and Colombia, for three reasons: her new charge, her functions in Ecuador and
her visits around the world including Ecuador.
First
reason, The actress was designated the special envoy of High Commissioner of the United Nations for the refugees on 17° April
of 2012. Angelina Jolie was ambassador of the Good Will for the Agency of the
United Nations for the refugees (ACNUR) for almost a decade performing her
functions with responsibility and interest.
Second reason, Jolie realized a visit of two days to the refugees in Urban and Rural zones of the province of Sucumbíos, place where receives hundreds of Colombian who run away from the armed violence in their country. The agency said that Angelina Jolie visited places like San Valentín of Agrio Lake, where most of 60% live in a extreme poverty, also other two communities near to river San Miguel which border with Colombia.
Third reason, during her last charge as ambassador of the Good Will (ACNUR), Jolie performed more than 40 visits to zones of refugees around the world, Angelina Jolie has been in the zone of Ecuador in two occasions, in 2002 and 2010, with the purpose to visit communities of Colombian refugees. At the end of her visit in Ecuador Jolie met with the chancellor Ricardo Patiño in private.
Second reason, Jolie realized a visit of two days to the refugees in Urban and Rural zones of the province of Sucumbíos, place where receives hundreds of Colombian who run away from the armed violence in their country. The agency said that Angelina Jolie visited places like San Valentín of Agrio Lake, where most of 60% live in a extreme poverty, also other two communities near to river San Miguel which border with Colombia.
Third reason, during her last charge as ambassador of the Good Will (ACNUR), Jolie performed more than 40 visits to zones of refugees around the world, Angelina Jolie has been in the zone of Ecuador in two occasions, in 2002 and 2010, with the purpose to visit communities of Colombian refugees. At the end of her visit in Ecuador Jolie met with the chancellor Ricardo Patiño in private.
In conclusion, Angelina Jolie continues visiting
places in the world where the poverty or the violence force to hundreds of
people escapes from their countries and to find a shelter in another where they
can live better. Ecuador is one of the countries that protect a lot of
Colombian people in shelters until the situation of that country get better.
By Cristina Coronel.
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