On Thursday Angelina Jolie made her third trip to Iraq.Angelina Jolie is offering support to hundreds of thousands of displaced Iraqis.
Angelina Jolie met four families displaced from the district of Abu Ghraib, located to the west of Baghdad, according to the UN Refugee Agency.
The families that Jolie met complained that their children could not go to school and they could not afford to pay for medical treatment for various ailments.one Iraqi complained to Jolie about his hardships, Jolie (a mother of six) told him, "It takes a lot of strength for you to survive this life. I don't know if I would be strong enough to survive this."
Before jolie left,she told locals: "I want to come back and find you in a better place and in a different situation. We hope that UNHCR and the government will support you in getting a piece of land. You need help not because you are poor, but because you are the future of Iraq."
Jolie first visited Iraq in August 2007, talking to 1,200 refugees. She returned last February.
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