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.