Angelina Jolie was looking painfully thin as she met with the Prime Minister of Pakistan yesterday.
Jolie is in Pakistan in her role of United Nations goodwill ambassador to raise awareness of the plight of the victims of the recent floods that have devastated the country.
More than 1,500 Pakistanis have been killed and around 20million affected by flooding brought on by the annual monsoon rains last month.
Crops have been devastated and disease is spreading among survivors.
'I am very moved by them and I hope that I am able to do something to help bring attention to the situation for all of the people in need in Pakistan,' Jolie said.
‘This is not just a humanitarian crisis, it is an economic and social catastrophe.
Earlier in the day the actress covered her head up in a black scarf, and did her best to blend in with a group of women she was meeting who had lost their children in the disaster.
Jolie was visiting the Kandaro II Camp in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
'I was shocked especially by how high the flood waters went,' Jolie told reporters. 'In some of the people's houses, it was nine feet high.'
The U.N. hopes Jolie's visit will bring attention and subsequent funds to the country.
Only $294 million of the $460 million in emergency funds requested by the UN has been received so far, despite what Maurizio Giuliano, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, calls: 'One of the worst humanitarian disasters in UN history, in terms of number of people that we have to assist and also the area covered.'
'There's lots of speculation about why this one has not gotten the attention it deserves,' Jolie said. 'Even all of the wonderful coverage ... is not getting the response that usually it's able to get.'
Angelina also had some sharp words for a Florida church planning to burn copies of the Quran to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City.
'I have hardly the words that somebody would do that to somebody's religious book,' Jolie told reporters in Islamabad after her visit to the refugee camp, according to the Associated Press.
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CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks to Angelina Jolie in Pakistan as she makes a desperate plea for flood victims.
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