The actress Angelina Jolie, the goodwill ambassador for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), on Tuesday thanked Tanzania for its continued hospitality towards refugees.
Jolie followed a group of 91 newly-arrived children, separated from their families in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), from their registration in Kigoma, to the Lugufu refugee camp in western Tanzania.
The actress helped the children build huts on a newly allocated site at Lugufu. The camp hosts some 85,000 Congolese refugees. Around 4,000 are new arrivals who fled recent fighting in eastern DRC.
"Personally and on behalf of UNHCR, I want to thank the Tanzanian people and their government for keeping the borders open over the years," Jolie said. "Their continued understanding and generosity have helped to keep many families alive."
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