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Brangelina Donated $333,000 Instead of Adopting More Kids

Brad and Ange at the UNICEF Ball on December 10, 2009

In addition to caring for their own six children, Brad and Angelina Jolie-Pitt just donated $333,000 to SOS Children's Villages, including $100,000 for two in Florida and Illinois (according to the Sydney Morning Herald). Merry Christmas!

SOS Villages operates 500 villages in 132 countries, taking in children who have been orphaned or abandoned. SOS Villages are currently raising over 80,000 children. Each SOS Home has a "mother" and up to 16 children in it -- Angelina recently visited one such home in Chad, and she must have liked what she saw. Other celebrity supporters include the Dalai Llama, Leonardo DiCaprio, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Johnny Cash, Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa. Visit sos-usa.org to follow suit.

Having personally visited a Ritz-Carlton owned SOS Village home in Jamaica, I can see what the fuss is all about. I met some happy, chatty kids who might not otherwise have had much of a chance at survival. Click through the gallery for a peek inside an SOS Home.

Gallery: SOS Village in Jamaica