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OK! Magazine reports that little wisenheimer Maddox Jolie Pitt, 6, is doing charity work that he came up with on his own. Maddox is making care packages to send to US soldiers serving overseas, and is said to involve his brother and sister in helping him put them together.
Maddox is doing his bit for charity too - and doing his parents proud - by making packages that will be shipped to U.S. troops overseas. “He gets the older kids involved like an assembly line,” an Angelina insider tells OK! “Zahara loves to glitter and sticker the cards!” The friend says Maddox came up with the idea all on his own. “He’s growing up to dream big and thinks even the tiniest things can make a big differece.”
[From OK! Magazine, print edition, March 31, 2008]
That’s such a cute story! Maddox has been going to school at a Lycee Francais branch near Austin, Texas and I wonder if a teacher encouraged him or if it’s an idea that he came up with himself after his mom’s trip to Iraq.
You can send care packages to US soldiers through the website anysoldier.com. It will help tell you where to send a package to a specific member of the armed forces, along with a message from them with the necessities they need. I started reading their actual requests and got teary-eyed. American soldiers need basic items like nail files, shampoo, lotion and baby wipes along with snacks and entertainment such as DVDs.
Good for Maddox for helping out our armed forces and by bringing attention to this cause with his actions. I wonder if he writes his full name on the packages and if the soldier(s) who receive it realize who he is.
Maddox, Angelina and an unnamed service member are shown on 12/2/07 at a press conference in the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans, thanks to Splash News.
Written by Celebitchy
Posted in Angelina Jolie, Good Causes, Maddox Jolie Pitt
47 Responses to “Maddox Jolie Pitt is making care packages for soldiers & it was his idea”
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See?? This is just the start of this kid’s presidential resume.
Maddox in 2040!!!!
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That’s way cool! And awesome of them to travel out there for a meet and greet. Totally cool!
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Plotting, plotting, that conniving wench is always plotting.
Joking aside, this is a cool thing for the kid to do. What a little cutie!
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Ha! True, headache, and it fits in neatly with yesterday’s Jolie-Pitt conspiracy to take over the world!
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If this info is true, Maddox will grow to be a fine young man.
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Yes, the first step is to win over the masses, then you grab control while everyone is ooo-ing & awww-ing!
Seriously, how freaking cool is this little kid? I can’t even imagine the glitter fabulousness Miss Zee comes up with!
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That is so sweet of him !!
I made care packages a couple of years ago for soldiers in Iraq. Some of these soldiers have no family back home to send anything to them. Thats why I think its important to do this.
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I bet little Ms Z’s directing his campaign.
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My brother in law is on his FOURTH tour in Iraq, and we send him packages weekly. We haven’t heard from him in a while, so we hope he’s okay and that he’s getting them. People have no idea how much it means to soldiers over there to get mail from home. It’s really the only thing that keeps them going.
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I didn’t realize until this article that you could actually send packages if you didn’t know someone. I’m going to check it out, and put together a couple of boxes this weekend.
Already, being drawn away from Hillary and into Maddox’s campaign!
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Anysoldier.com is a great site for finding out where to help, and kudos to whoever’s influencing this kid to think outside his own world (family, school, etc.). I just fear some of his cards, etc., will end up on eBay, and that would be a shame.
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It is not a Big deal, there are millions of other people famous or not, young and old around the world that do the same thing.
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And they all deserve praise for it. I’ll send a few boxes myself when I get paid again.
My thoughts are with your family, MSat. I can’t imagaine how tough that is
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@Anonymous
Noone’s saying it’s a big deal. And of course millions of others are already doing it. But if this story brings additional attention to home comfort-starved troops, then how can it be anything other than a good thing? -
I participate in “The Shoebox Program” for Operation Christmas Child through Safeway. The boxes people fill go to kids in 3rd world countries who are incredibly thrilled to get anything at all, like a comb for their hair perhaps, pens, pencils, etc. It’s extremely rewarding to fill the boxes and watching their thrilled faces on a video when they opened them was touching to see. This sounds like a good deal too. Will check out the website.
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@Claire. We do a similar Christmas one (with a charity) and I swear to God I get more excited putting the boxes together and seeing/hearing from the recipients afterwards than opening my own presents on Christmas morning! Definitely a good thing.
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Maddox could not be president of the US - he is not a natural born citizen!
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Parade rainer
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Don’t fret, Bodhi, Ms Z will get the geneologists to fix it.
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Not too surprising, the kid was born in the land of the sweatshop. He would certainly know how to organize some child labor. OK just kidding, I think its a cool thing for the lil kid to be doing also.
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Iva, it’s a joke but actually, I believe if you are adopted by U.S citizens, you can be elected president.
And Kevin, that’s funny. LOL
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I agree it is a good thing, but it was never mentioned on this website before that i can remember until this story was discovered. I know that this is a celebrity website, but it could have been mentioned before with out the “celebrity” attachment to it. And sending care
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I’m sure that Angie, the sneaky witch, will get the laws changed so that all the kids can hold elective office. What a feather in her cap, to be the mother of the President, Governor of California (Ms. Z) and nine senators!
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And Anonymous, this is a CELEBRITY gossip site. No reason to have anything else on here.
Funny how all the grouchy disgruntled people are always named Anonymous.
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disregard the last 3 words
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Not gruchy just giving an opinion.
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lol @ Kevin
I wonder if it something he’ll get the other kids at the Lycee Francais into
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Syko - pfffrt you think too small. If she has her way Maddox’ll be the Emperor of the Galaxy, Ms. Z as the Interplanetary Controller and Glitter-distributor and with Pax as his Secretary of State -cause everybody will totally trust a guy called Peace! And Brad will sit there and be mute. And Aniston will cry. Again.
Would it were that could happen; alas the always-accurate conspiracy theorists say that they won’t have two brass farthings to rub together next week. So President of the USA will just have to do
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I guess shi can be Undersecratary for Intergalactic Glitter Distribution, at least for a little while. Ya know, like til she can tie her own shoes
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Hooo nooooo - she’s in the Alien Diplomatic Corps - who else would have such an intrinsic understanding of otherworldly “blobs”?
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Ah! Good point
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Crap, now I’ve visited that blasted site and I want to send out care packages. Curse my squishy center.
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Please folks, all of these programs are fantastic and worthy of your time and donations. Not all of us who served overseas were lucky enough to have a wife and family at home to send them goodies (and even basic survival necessities in some cases). You have no idea the joy even a clean pair of socks can bring to these guys who’ve sacrificed so much to serve their country.
Anything you can do will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Maddox looks like he’s got a real caring and kind heart. Everyone should be so lucky to have a nice little boy like that.
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Its realy good to have your perspective on these kinds of issues, Scott F. I really am going to get some boxes together when I can
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That is really sweet…wow…sometimes i forget he’s just a normal kid that does normal things like this instead of being adopted by celeb parents…
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Hey, if you guys are gonna send them something, send the guys some razors. In the case of most of the soldiers I know, the base is overcrowded and the PX has been out of razors for damn ever.
And send the women girly smelly good stuff.
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Headache
You must be a natural born citizen to be President, adopted does not count.
He could be Secretary of State however
As someone who has been on three trips to Iraq, the packages are a huge morale booster - even if you don’t need anything. As they say, the thought counts! -
Thanks for the link to the care package website.
Sending one out this weekend with my daughter! -
Wow just goes to show you’re never too young to be a self serving media ho and follow in ma and pa’s footsteps…… Hehehe, was that the right blend of cynicism and irrational vitriole? I could get good at this, I might just rename myself judi or iva.
Seriously though, that’s a cute story and you can see the bond between those two.
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Brangelina PR machine is now into overdrive. Careful, you may over do it. First the charity do, then the pregnancy debut, then the $10m tag on their baby strategically estimated by an expert, now their children are also doing charity. Aaaaaaaah!!, these stars are sometimes too transparent.
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Frewt - excellent effort, but just pipped at the post by Lola.
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his name is jones!
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That’s amazing, going to check out the site and do care pkgs - even though I’m poor, it will be nice to do something good for someone.
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Poor Maddox, he used to be a jolly kid before Brad came along. No he seems scared of his own shadow.
Angelina moved to England for privacy when she got him. Yet with five kids, she does not need privacy any more. She is just a psychotic woman that one.
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