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| Jolie waves as she arrives at a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday. | ||
The actress, representing the U.N.
High Commissioner for Refugees, met with U.N. officials in Port-au-Prince and
visited an SOS Villages camp for orphans outside the capital, where she
was cheered by Haitians yelling, "Angie! Angie!"
That same camp took care of 33 Haitian children
after a U.S.-based Baptist group was arrested at the Dominican border
trying to take the kids out of the country. It wasn't known if Jolie
spoke with any of the children, and journalists were kept at a distance
throughout her visit.
The American missionaries have been accused of
trying to take the children out of Haiti without proper documentation.
The group says it was heading to a Dominican orphanage following Haiti's
quake and had only good intentions.
Jolie also toured a Doctors Without
Borders hospital in a Port-au-Prince suburb, waving to onlookers.
She and husband Brad Pitt have
contributed $1 million to Doctors Without Borders for its emergency
medical operations in Haiti.
Jolie was meeting with Haitians employed in quake
debris cleanup through a joint U.N.-U.S. Agency for International
Development program before spending the night at a Brazilian military
camp outside the city.
On Wednesday, Jolie planned to visit the southern
city of Jacmel, a camp for people made homeless by the quake, as well
as a Save the Children relief supply center before returning to
Port-au-Prince and leaving for the neighboring Dominican Republic.
Jolie has previously visited Iraq, Thailand,
Pakistan and other countries with UNHCR.
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