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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Actor Brad Pitt took his oldest daughter, Zahara Marley, 3 ½, for a lift at Mandelieu Airport outside Cannes, France, on Monday. Mom Angelina Jolie stayed home in Nice with the rest of the brood -- Maddox Chivan, Pax Thien, Shiloh Nouvel, 7-week-old fraternal twins Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline.
Christina Aguilera has the perfect dinner date in son Max Liron, 7 months! The singer, 27, and husband Jordan Bratman (rear) enjoyed a family night out Monday in New York City. The family is in the Big Apple for tonight's Brooklyn meet and greet at Macy's to promote Christina's new perfume, Inspire.
Actress Halle Berry and 5-month-old daughter Nahla Ariela take a walk on the wild side Saturday during a visit with Halle's mother Judith to the Los Angeles Zoo. Next up for the Oscar winner: appearing on the star-studded Stand Up to Cancer TV charity event on Sept. 5. Dad is model Gabriel Aubry.
Alabama Luella Barker, 2 ½, shared dad Travis Barker's serious look as they returned from breakfast at the Marmalade Cafe in Malibu on Monday. Along with brother Landon Asher, 4 ½ (not pictured), the trio visited 98% Angel after their meal. Mom is Shanna Moakler.
Actress Isla Fisher took daughter Olive, 10 months next week, along as she picked up a new Britax carseat in Westwood, Calif. on Wednesday. Olive's dad is Sacha Baron Cohen, to whom Isla has been engaged since 2004. 
A fresh-from-the-shower Jennifer Garner and daughter Violet Anne, 2 ½, were all smiles while arriving at art class in Santa Monica in Wednesday. The 36-year-old actress expects her second child with Ben Affleck this winter.
Nicole Richie took her 7-month-old daughter Harlow Winter Kate out for a morning walk on Wednesday. Dad Joel Madden is currently out on tour with his band Good Charlotte while Nicole, 26, stays in Glendale with their baby girl.
Holding on tightly to daughter Zahara, 3, Brad Pitt enjoys a sunny day out with his mom, Jane Pitt, on Wednesday, visiting La Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, a museum in Saint-Paul, France.
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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After Wednesday's press conference – during which Angelina Jolie's obstetrician announced it could be "several weeks" before she gives birth – she and Brad Pitt continued settling in to the Fondation Lenval hospital in the South of France. "It's like Fort Alamo!" trumpeted the Nice-Matin. The local newspaper also described the international media crush at the hospital as something out of the TV series 24 with walkie-talkies "like the kind Jack Bauer would use."
But the scene inside seems far more domestic. Brad dropped by the maternity ward Wednesday afternoon with their two daughters, Zahara, 3, and Shiloh, 2. Angie– who is expecting twins with Brad– is staying in a pre-booked suite of four rooms overlooking the Mediterranean, the paper reported, adding that each room goes for a modest 125 Euros. (That's just under $200.)
Her obstetrician, Dr. Michel Sussmann, said Wednesday that the Oscar-winner could give birth anytime "in the next weeks." The doctor has been monitoring Angelina's pregnancy for the past two months, Nice-Matin reported, noting that he has been practicing in the area for 23 years.
"She will only benefit from being monitored at the hospital in the weeks to come," Sussmann said. "All this is ... totally normal." Is he nervous having such a high-profile patient? "I'm not nervous at all," he told PEOPLE. "She's a very nice person, very happy. She's not nervous either."
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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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