EXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie – and daughter Shiloh! – visit refugees in Lebanon #WorldRefugeeDay http://t.co/XLUK3KXx7g pic.twitter.com/KpLoZuAibs

— People magazine (@people) June 20, 2015

Last weekend, Angelina Jolie attended a conference in South Africa on behalf of her campaign to end sexual violence in conflict zones. She gave an incredible speech before the African Union summit. Following that, Angelina and Pax went to Namibia, where they checked in the work of the N/a’ankuse Foundation, which works on conservation and wildlife protection. They saw some baby cheetahs! Go here to see.

Then on Saturday the 20th, World Refugee Day, Angelina took Shiloh to Lebanon to meet some of the hundreds of thousands of Syrian people (men, women and children) displaced by a one-sided “civil war.” Apparently, some of the refugees were so grateful to see Jolie (again, because she has visited the refugee camps many times in the past five years) that some were bowing to her and kissing her hand. People Magazine posted one exclusive photo (the header photo) of Angelina and Shiloh spending time with a 12 year old Syrian refugee named Hala. Jolie told People:

“Shiloh is very aware that I hold refugee families in high regard and has been asking to come on missions and meet them for many years. She had heard about Hala since my last visit to Lebanon, and has been wanting to meet her and her brothers and sisters. It was wonderful that they were able to meet, play together, and make friends. So many refugees are children. I’ve often heard them say that the most painful thing is not that they have lost their homes – it is that they have lost their friends.”

[From People]

Well, that just broke my heart. This is a good “mom thing” to do, especially with “first world” kids who experience “tragedies” like their parents not buying them a new phone – Jolie is exposing her kids to the larger world, to people less fortunate, and the way she frames it for Shiloh is that… there is no real difference between Shi and Hala. Kids are kids. The only difference between Hala and Shiloh is luck – the luck for one child to be born to wealthy Americans.

Jolie also traveled to Turkey, a country that now hosts the most refugees in the world – 1.77 million refugees reside in camps within Turkey’s borders. In Turkey, Jolie made a lengthy speech – go here to read.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, People Magazine and WENN.