Here's what Angie set up for Maddox in Cambodia:
"Maddox Chivan Children's Center"
Thanks to the generous donation of Angelina Jolie, the CHC opened the doors of the Maddox Chivan Children's Center in Phnom Penh in February of 2006. The center provides a unique program of multidisciplinary care for Cambodian children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
The center focuses on the growing population of children whose lives have been severely impacted by the AIDS epidemic. Before having access to therapy, support was limited to accompanying children in the last moments of their lives. Now, life expectancy is much higher, which changes the kind of support that they need - needs that extend beyond mere medical ones. They are typically victims of discrimination, unable to receive schooling because of their illness and because they have to take care of their ill parents or work to support their families. They are victims of discrimination at school and in their communities, traumatized by their parents' death and living in extreme poverty in which their opportunities are severely limited.
Current estimates report that approximately 14,000 children in Cambodia are infected with HIV and mother-to-child transmission of AIDS is one of the major reasons for new infections. Without specific support that can help them cope with all of the obstacles and difficulties that they have to face, what kind of future can these children have?
The MCCC aims to respond in a comprehensive way to this need by offering multidisciplinary care: medical treatments for AIDS affected and infected children, educational support from preschool to through 6th grade, counseling (through art therapy, peer groups, life skills workshops), sports activities, various training programs for skills in for example English, computer and vocational skills, and provision of a daily nutritious lunch to make sure they have enough to eat since many of the children come from the poorest sector of society.
Above all, the children, get to be just children at the MCCC not as "children with AIDS or from an AIDS family". A special focus of the MCCC is on the particularly vulnerable ages of preschool and the teenage years, which has very specific needs in terms of counseling, health, and education.
The number of orphans due to AIDS in Cambodia is greater than 100,000. The multidisciplinary approach being pioneered in the Maddox Chivan Children's Center, will give these kids a leg up through education and opportunities in addition to medical assistance. It is also designed to be a model for pediatric AIDS care globally while providing integrated care for AIDS infected and affected children and their families.
http://www.cambodianhealthcommittee.org/index.htm
Brad Pitt on a visit to the MCCC in November of 2006
Marie-Pierre Fernandez, director of the MCCC, Angelina Jolie, and co-founder of the CHC Anne Goldfeld with a child who currently attends the Maddox Chivan Children's Center during a visit by Jolie and Brad Pitt in November of 2006.
My great Uncle who lives in Cambodia have met Brad and Angie a few weeks ago while they briefly visited the country. My great uncle works at MCCC as a cleaner there saids the couple are very lovely, kind, and very humble people. He doesn't know they're big Hollywood stars in America until someone pointed it out to him.