Jolie: "vital that people help Pakistan's flood victims and not surrender to compassion fatigue"

As Pakistan recovers from a huge natural disaster, a flood that wiped out vast sections of the country leaving countless people dead and homeless, Angelina Jolie is one of the public figures leading the charge to get humanitarian aid to the country.

A stunning 20 million people have been displaced by the flooding, and so much real estate will have to be rebuilt, it will surely take decades to recover and millions and millions of dollars.

Jolie is urging people to remember Pakistan in the months and years to come, as they need to for Haiti and other places that are in the long term stages of recovery from a disaster. Angelina Jolie is one of the biggest movie stars, and with her husband Brad Pitt is also on the cutting edge of humanitarian and activist work among celebrities.

Jolie: "vital that people help Pakistan's flood victims and not surrender to compassion fatigue"
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Angelina Jolie says it's vital that people help Pakistan's flood victims and not surrender to compassion fatigue. The floods have displaced 20 million people, but donations are below those for catastrophes like the Haitian earthquake or the Asian tsunami. Jolie said she understood that "it is getting hard for people -- they see Haiti, they see these other events ... and they get exhausted by the time another big one rolls around." But she said Pakistanis face "mass death, mass displacement, and this situation is going to get worse." Jolie has visited Haiti, Iraq and other countries as a U.N. goodwill ambassador.