ANGELINA JOLIE'S DIARY WITH Dr.JEFFREY SACHS IN AFRICA 1

Extreme poverty means walking long distances barefoot to collect safe drinking water. It's a hospital overflowing with patients dying from diseases that are treatable and preventable. More than 1 billion people face extreme poverty living on less than one dollar a day, and more than 22,000 people die every day from extreme poverty and preventable diseases - needlessly.

The facts are staggering - but there is hope. There is a now feasible plan to end extreme poverty in our lifetime, and Sauri, a cluster of villages in Western Kenya, helps to show the world how we can make that happen.

In this special think MTV episode of Diary, actress and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie journeys to Kenya with the world's leading expert on poverty, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals. On their journey, they witness how the challenges of hunger, disease and isolation in Africa are being overcome in this small village beset by hunger, AIDS, and malaria.

Spending two long days in Sauri, Sachs exposes Jolie to every corner of village life to reveal his vision for ending extreme poverty by 2015. In a small hut, he demonstrates how a simple $10.00 bed net keeps families safe from Malaria, a disease that kills over three million people every year. In an open field, Jolie learns how basic instruction in proper farming techniques and fertilizer use can produce enough food to keep villagers alive on land that has failed to yield sustainable crops for generations. And, in a moving sequence featuring the town's young people, Jolie discovers how free school lunches are giving children a reason to come to class and learn - and that one computer is connecting this tiny village to the rest of the world.

The images and stories that often emanate from Africa are bleak. But, The Diary of Angelina Jolie and Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa offers actual solutions to famine, plague, and conflict. Thanks to the vision of Dr. Sachs and the humanitarian concerns of Jolie - Sauri has a message for the rest of the world - it is alive and fighting back.

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[SmileyManu]

god bless Angelina

[PlanetoJolie]

This is so beautiful.. makes me cry at what a lovely, extremely wonderful woman Angelina Jolie is :')

[creyes8519]

I love this .



[rednogo]

Isn't it beautiful how ONE person cares enough. If we all cared 1/16 as much as Angie does poverty would not exist.

[tudortuber27]

wonder who's the ONE person that dislikes this...

[tudortuber27]

It just makes me want to be a better person. That's an extremely inspiring thing, what she does.

[hdignard]

Dr. Jeffrey Sachs and Angelina Jolie - a powerful, compassionate and well-informed duo.

[lucioffilippini]

GOOD ANGEL ANGELINA <3

[Skyler6314]

angelinas a walking angel

[imadokieve13]

So sad that their are a few celebrities like this