Jolie and Pitt give $1 million gifts

U.S. actor Brad Pitt, left, shown in Berlin in a Dec 15, 2004, file photo, and Angelina Jolie, right, shown in London, in a Jan. 5, 2005 file photo. The two are giving gifts of $1 million each to two humanitarian organizations, an adviser to the couple said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Roberto Pfeil/John D McHugh)

WASHINGTON - Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are giving gifts of $1 million each to two humanitarian organizations, an adviser to the couple said Wednesday.

The recipients are Global Action for Children and Medecins sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders.

"In the most troubled parts of the world - places that much of the world has abandoned - MSF is always there," said Jolie in a statement issued by Trevor Neilson, the couple's philanthropic and political adviser. "I have seen these brave men and women working in war zones and horrific conditions and I deeply admire them."

Jolie, who co-starred with Pitt in the 2005 film "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," is a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commission for Refugees.

Jennifer Delaney, U.S. director for Global Action for Children, expressed her thanks for the gift from the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.

"Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt not only care, but more important, are taking concrete action to address the fact that there will be 20 million children orphaned by AIDS by 2010, and millions more orphaned by tuberculosis, malaria and conflict or whose parents are sick and dying," she said.

Delaney said the vast majority of these children are in the care of extended families and communities that need support to overcome the ravages of HIV/AIDS and poverty.