Jolie back in Kenya

FOR the second time in two months, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has traveled to Kenya, visiting a United Nations-backed poverty-eradication project in the east African country.

When she last visited in April she was allegedly on a romantic getaway with Hollywood hottie Brad Pitt.
This time it was down to work, with Jolie accompanied by Jeffey Sachs, special advisor to the United Nations secretary general on the eradication of global poverty.

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Officials told AFP Jolie and her adopted son Maddox visited a cash-strapped Sauri village in western Kenya near Lake Victoria, which is beset by poverty, hunger, AIDS and malaria.

Sauri village is part of Sachs's Millennium Villages Project, aimed at promoting aid to poor villages by offering medical care, access to markets and providing electricity through rechargeable lanterns.

Jolie has been accompanied by a television crew throughout her time in Kenya.

May 31, 2005  From: Agence France-Presse