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Shiloh helps the children of Namibia

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Posted by PandorasBlog Australia
August 20, 2009 09:43 AM

Back in 2006, Angie Jo & Bradley sPitt enhanced their charitable reputation when they agreed to donate a reported $4 million to children in Africa from selling photographs of a newborn Shiloh. Part of the donation, approximately $10,000. went specifically to buy 72 bicycles for children in two schools in northern Namibia. In a new LIFE & STYLE feature story the magazine talked to children, who have never seen an Angie Jo movie, but say Angelina helped give them a better future. Without a bicycle, some children had very difficult routes to get to school that would impair their studies and leave them struggling. "I had to get up at 5 a.m. and leave home in the dark to get to school on time," 16-year-old student Emiliana Shikongo told Life & Style. "It made me very tired." Using a bicycle, courtesy of Jolie, takes just minutes. "Now I can stay at school until 4 or 5 p.m. to finish my homework and still get home before dark," she said. "Now my teachers and parents are happy with my performance - already I have improved my average, and my aim is to be getting 100 percent. I know with the bicycle I can do it."

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