Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have given $2 million to fund a children's health clinic in Ethiopia, where their 3-year-old daughter Zahara was born. The center, which will focus on serving children with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, will be run by the Global Health Committee. "It is our hope when Zahara is older she will take responsibility of the clinic and continue its mission," Brad said in a statement.
The Jolie-Pitts run a similar clinic in Cambodia - where their 7-year-old son Maddox was born - called Maddox Chivan Children's Center. "Our goal is to transfer the success we have had in Cambodia to Ethiopia where people are needlessly dying of tuberculosis, a curable disease, and HIV/AIDS, a treatable disease," Angelina said in a statement.
"The fact that poor people continue to die in our world today of TB, a curable disease, because of lack of access to drugs and care is unacceptable," Brad added. This week, the power couple ranked sixth on Parade magazine's list of the most generous celebrities. They gave $8.4 million in 2007.
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In town for the Venice Film Festival, Brad Pitt steps out for a boat ride in the Italian city Tuesday with two of his little men, sons Maddox, 7, and Pax, 4. The actor was at the fest to premiere his dark comedy Burn After Reading.
Fresh from a visit to London, Kate Hudson spends quality time with son Ryder, 4, giving him a lift around New York's Greenwich Village on Wednesday.
Sacha Baron Cohen gives his precious cargo – 10-month-old daughter Olive (with fiancée Isla Fisher, not pictured) – a lift while waiting in line Monday at Los Angeles International Airport. 
After a date night with Katie Holmes over the weekend, Tom Cruise and 2-year-old daughter Suri head to a heliport in New York City on Monday.
Here are some more pictures of Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, the twins (Knox Leon and Vivienne Marchelle) and the rest of the Jolie-Pitt kids. They are from Hello! Magazine. I might get asked to remove them so enjoy will they last.
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It was a day at the races for actor Brad Pitt, 44, and his oldest son Maddox Chivan, 6 ½, as the pair attended the Moto GP race in Mugello, Italy to Sunday. Both wore earplugs for safety.
Actress Jennifer Garner, 36, and daughter Violet Anne, 2 ½, went for a walk in Cambridge, MA on Friday. Dad is actor Ben Affleck.
Actress Naomi Watts, 39, tried to push along a stroller while holding on to son Alexander 'Sasha' Pete, 10 months, while running errands in New York City Sunday. Dad is actor Liev Schreiber.
Without A Trace star, Poppy Montgomery, 32, and fiance and actor, Adam Kaufman and their son Jackson Phillip Deveraux, 5 months, attended the Second Annual Kidstock Music and Art Festival at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, CA on Sunday.
Tom Cruise carries daughter Suri into a waiting car after enjoying dinner at Italian eatery E. Baldi in Beverly Hills. It's wasn't just a date with dad though – Katie Holmes, her parents, daughter Bella and son Connor were also there.
Actress Angelina Jolie, 32, is enjoying her pregnancy and time with partner Brad Pitt and their children. Angie opens up in July's Vanity Fair about being pregnant, raising an international family, their 2-year-old daughter Shiloh and how they annoy their children. The family not only includes, Shiloh, but siblings Maddox, 6, Pax, 4, and Zahara, 3, all from different countries.
On being pregnant:
“I love it. It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing. Also, I’m fortunate. I think some women have a different experience depending on their partner. I think that affects it. I happen to be with somebody who finds pregnancy very sexy. So that makes me feel very sexy.”
On her international family:“
When I was growing up I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents. It’s not a humanitarian thing, because I don’t see it as a sacrifice. It’s a gift. We’re all lucky to have each other. I look at Shiloh — because, obviously, physically, she is the one that looks like Brad and I when we were little — and say, ‘If these were our brothers and sisters, how much would we have known by the time we were six that it took into our 30s and 40s to figure out?’ I suppose I’m giving them the childhood I always wished I had.”
On Shiloh’s birth:
“We were in this little hospital in Africa when Shi was born. I don’t think there was anybody else in the hospital. It was just a little cottage, the three of us. It ended up being the greatest thing…. I had a C-section and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.”
On nannies:
“We don’t ever have anybody spend the night. We may have to adjust that when the next one comes. But we do have ladies that work with us, and they’re also from different cultures and back-grounds. One lady’s a Vietnamese teacher — wonderful. One is of Congolese descent from Belgium. Another is from the States and is really creative and does art programs.”
On raising her children:
“Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It’s what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists.”
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Actress Bridget Moynahan, 37, took son John Edward Thomas, 9 months, out for a walk in Pacific Palisades, California on Wednesday. Dad is New England Patriot, Tom Brady.
Musicians Gavin Rossdale (not pictured), 42, Gwen Stefani, 38, and their son Kingston James McGregor, 2 on Monday, visited a park near their Beverly Hills, CA home on Thursday. Gwen expects their second child in mid-to-late summer.
Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt, the 6 ½-year-old son of actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, was all smiles as he visited the pool at Eden-Roc in Cannes, France on Tuesday.
Singer Celine Dion, 40, was joined by her husband René Angélil, 66, and son René-Charles, 7, as she received the Legion of Honor from French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris on Thursday.
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