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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt celebrated their daughter’s birth in Namibia by donating $300,000 to help other babies in the impoverished southern Africa nation.
Jolie gave birth to Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt at the Welwitschia Clinic in Walvis Bay on Saturday. Mother and baby were both healthy and doing very well Monday, said Samuel Nuuyoma, governor of the Namibian region of Erongo. “They are just fine, they are enjoying their lives,” said Nuuyoma.

The couple also gave $15,000 for a school and a community center in Swakopmund.
“We want to contribute to Namibia and the people who have been so gracious to us at this time,” a government statement released Monday quoted the couple as saying.

Jolie and Pitt had come to Namibia before the birth to avoid the media, and the government went to extraordinary lengths to accommodate their desire for privacy.
Shiloh could be eligible for automatic Namibian citizenship, government officials added. The issue would be discussed with the couple later, officials said.

Jolie, 30, is a frequent visitor to Africa and serves as goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. She has two adopted children: toddler Zahara, from Ethiopia, and 4-year-old Maddox, from Cambodia. Both had their surnames legally changed to Jolie-Pitt after Pitt announced his intentions to adopt the children as well.

Pitt, 42, has had a weekend to remember: a baby girl on Saturday, a Cannes award going to his new movie on Sunday.
Pitt disappointed fans in France but warmed the hearts of pregnant women everywhere when he sent an e-mail last week to the Cannes Film Festival that he was unable to attend the screening of his new film “Babel” because of the baby’s “imminent arrival.”
In “Babel,” directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Pitt plays a husband and father trying to cope with a crisis on vacation in Morocco. Cate Blanchett plays Pitt’s wife.

“I am tremendously proud of `Babel’ and want to congratulate everyone involved for this great achievement,” Pitt said in the e-mail. On Sunday, Inarritu won the directing prize at Cannes. The Mexican director said more than 1,000 people contributed to the production of the film and that “I’m receiving this award on behalf of all of them.”

In Springfield, Mo., Pitt’s family was delighted with the news of Shiloh’s birth.
“It’s an exciting time for Brad and Angie, and we are really happy for them and the kids,” Brad’s brother, Doug Pitt, told the News-Leader in an e-mail.
Jolie and Pitt were linked romantically shortly after appearing together in the 2005 movie “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”

Source: cbs5.com

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