Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt spent Thanksgiving in Vietnam and Christmas in Costa Rica handing out gifts to refugee children. "We had a wonderful Christmas both with the Costa Rican people and the Colombian refugee families we met," Jolie said in a statement. The visit was part of her work as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Approximately 11,500 refugees have fled to Costa Rica, primarily from Colombia, where an armed conflict between leftist guerrillas, soldiers and paramilitary forces has forced them to flee their homeland, says the UNHCR. An estimated 3 million Colombians have been forced from their homes due to the conflict.
"The conflict in Colombia is the greatest humanitarian tragedy in the Western Hemisphere, but it receives very little international attention," Jolie said during her visit to the refugee center. "My Christmas message to Colombian refugees and to the millions of displaced people in Colombia is that the world has not totally forgotten them."
Source: PEOPLE
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