According to sources Angelina Jolie met some of the flood victims in Pakistan on Tuesday and appealed to the international community to provide aid needed to help the country recover from its worst natural disaster. The flow of aid money has stalled in recent days, and officials hope the two day visit by Jolie who serves as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N refugee agency will convince foreign countries and individuals to send financial assistance. The thirty five year old actress said she met with many people whose lives have been devastated by the floods. Including mothers who lost their children and an elderly couple who feared they would never be able to rebuild the home they lost.
Sources claim that the actress was deeply moved by them and hopes that she is able to be able to do something to help bring attention to the situation for all of the people in need there. She toured the area wearing a long black robe and a black headscarf adorned with a red stripe the kind of clothing worn by the women there. The floods began in the northwest at the end of July after some extremely heavy monsoon rains and slowly surged south along the Indus River taking out several hundreds of villages and towns and killing more than 1700 people. About seventeen million people have been affected by the floods, and many will need emergency assistance just to survive. There has been some funding for the crisis but the U.N sent out an appeal that they need more in order to properly care for those affected by the flooding. Angelina Jolie has done her part in the retrospect of calling all nations to help in the relief efforts for what has happened to the people in Pakistan. Any help is appreciated by the people.