“There are well over 84 million people displaced globally at this moment, over half of them children, who also must not be forgotten,” Jolie said in a statement.
On April 30, Angelina Jolie traveled to the city of Lviv, in Ukraine, as the country is bombarded by Russian forces invading the terrain.
While in Lviv, Jolie visited a train station where both children and adults volunteers are working with citizens who have been displaced. The relief effort offers psychiatrists, who have said they each see up to fifteen people a day. Jolie and her aides had to leave when air raid sirens began to sound.
In her statement, she added, “No child anywhere should have to flee their homes, or witness the murder of their loved ones, or experience shelling and the destruction of their homes. Yet that is the reality of so many children in Ukraine and around the world.”reports that the regional governor Maksym Kozytskyy spoke of her visit to a local boarding school as well on social media platform Telegram, meeting more kids affected by the war.
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