Hollywood star Angelina Jolie gets Cambodian passport after being awarded citizenship
- From: "Chim" <ChimS1@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 22 Nov 2005 03:14:49 -0800
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has received
a Cambodian passport after being made a citizen of the impoverished
Southeast Asian country, an associate said Tuesday.
She can use it when she visits the native land of her adopted son,
Maddox, said Stephan Bognar, executive director of the Maddox Jolie
project in Cambodia.
The project, managed by San Francisco-based WildAid, promotes wildlife
conservation and community development in a former Khmer Rouge
guerrilla stronghold in northwestern Cambodia.
Bognar said the actress was "ecstatic and thrilled" last month when he
handed her the passport and an official copy of a royal decree giving
her Cambodian citizenship.
"Maddox was there and she showed him (the passport)," he said.
"It gives her a closer link, a stronger bond" with her adopted son's
native country. she said.
Jolie has had a simple wooden hut built for to stay in when she visits
Cambodia, Bognar said.
He said he did not know when Jolie's hectic schedule as a mother,
actress and conservationist would allow her to next visit Cambodia.
Jolie has donated US$1.5 million (1.3 million) for the project in the
past three years.
The project trains villagers in sustainable economic activities in the
hope that they will conserve natural resources. It also aims to provide
supplemental income for government rangers to protect wildlife and
forests in the former war zone, Bognar said.
Parts of Jolie's adventure movie "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" were filmed
at Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temple.
The actress adopted Maddox three years ago, and has recently adopted an
orphaned baby girl from Ethiopia.
11/22/05 04:57 EST
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