Angelina Jolie - A Plea for Pakistan`s Flood Affectees

The script below are the words of Angelina Jolie`s. They are her answers pertaining  to Pakistan`s devastating flood affectees, while she was being interviewed by CNN`s  Dr Sanjay Gupta and Laura Ziskin, SU2C Co-Founder. The interview was aired on  December the 4th, 2010 at 07:30 Eastern Time. She spoke these words of passion  as a Goodwill Ambassador from the United Nations. She spoke these words from  her heart. A Plea for Pakistan`s Flood Affectees  by Angelina Jolie The impact of Pakistan`s floods are on real people, and immediate assistance  will be needed for some time to come. Many people are not giving Pakistan the  attention she deserves because they suffer from a fatigue in general when  it comes to disaster relief. But if I can say that the thing that I've learned the  most in being in Pakistan is that we tend to focus on one issue at a time,  because that seems to be what people can observe and care for. But Pakistan,  as you know, is so complex because it has not just the people from the flood  and 18 million affected now, but it still has the 1.7 million Afghan refugees who  are here.  And they've been displaced by the floods. Millions feel that in this lifetime they will never be able to recuperate what they  have lost, that they would never ever have again nice things, that they would  never have a nice bed, a nice house. These are places where people have  raised their children and their grandchildren.And it's -- in a moment, in a few  hours, completely gone.  And they're really good people. They're really just kind, wonderful,  hardworking older people who will pass away most likely in this  mud-covered area. We have no choice but to be optimistic and to  have hope. I think, without that, we're just lost and things deteriorate.  In this part of the world, Pakistanis are a resilient people. I think of all that they've been hit with and they continue  to move on, to rebuild, to trade, to educate, to learn,   they're really trying. And they've fought through a lot. And they  will continue to fight through and that goes for the Afghani  people as well. We have to support them. And also, for all the people that are worried  about conflict --Abroad, this part of the world they feel like it's far away,  or they're not sure that they don't understand the corruption, or for all of this. The only  way to make for a healthier and more hopeful, stronger Pakistan  and Afghanistan is to help support education, is to help people,  especially in this time of need, and to not just allow for  more devastation and more desperation. Please care and please help. Just remember they're people, they're family,  they're lovely, lovely, hardworking people and beautiful children. And they  deserve -- they deserve dignity and assistance.