Angelina Jolie Visits Alabama for Daughter Zahara’s Speech About Period Poverty at Mother-Daughter Brunch

Mar. 15, 2025

Angelina Jolie and daughter Zahara Jolie-Pitt on March 1, 2025.Photo:Women in Training, Inc./Mega

Women in Training, Inc./Mega

Angelina Jolieis once again showing her support forZahara Jolie-Pitt.

The Oscar winner, 49, attended a brunch in Montgomery, Ala., with her 20-year-old daughter on Saturday, March 1, to raise awareness forperiod poverty, which the National Institutes of Health describes as women and girls “having insufficient access to menstrual products, education, and sanitation facilities.”

Zahara, who joined Spelman College’s chapter ofAlpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) Sororityin November 2023, was the keynote speaker for the Women in Training Inc.’s fourth Mother-Daughter Brunch at the Renaissance hotel.

“We are truly honored that Zahara Jolie-Pitt will speak at the Fourth Annual WIT Mother-Daughter Brunch about her passion to end period poverty, which is the mission of Women in Training,” the non-profit organization’s president and CEO Adeyela Bennett said ahead of the event, according toWAKA 8 Action News.

Zahara Jolie-Pitt on March 1, 2025.Women in Training, Inc./Mega

She continued, “We are also excited that her mother, the internationally renowned movie star Angelina Jolie, will join us to support her daughter and to support our goal of ensuring that every girl and young woman has the products she needs to live her life to the fullest extent.”

Angelina adopted Zahara in 2005 from Ethiopia when she was 7 months old while on a visit with her eldest son, Maddox, now 23.

TheMariaactress sharessix children— Maddox, Pax, 21, Zahara, Shiloh, 18, and twins Knox and Vivienne, both 16 — with her ex husbandBrad Pitt.

Angelina Jolie and her kids Maddox, Vivienne, Zahara, Shiloh and Knox in 2021.Jesse Grant/Getty

Jesse Grant/Getty

“Her kids are volunteering around the state, asking for what’s needed and jumping in," a source close to theEternalsactresstold PEOPLEon Jan. 13.

“She went to see the firefighters at the Rose Bowl and is close to the team atWorld Central Kitchen,” the insider added at the time, noting that Angelina first connected with the organization during a May 2022visit to Ukraine.

“Overall she is trying to listen and follow and not get in anyone’s way,” the source continued of Angelina’s efforts to help. “She knows what’s important is to bring supplies and donate and fall in line. She isn’t posting or announcing efforts. Just trying to listen and learn.”

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In addition to raising her children to give back to others, the actress has also spoken openly about the importance of self.

“My daughter is from Ethiopia, one of my children … And I have learned so much from her,” Angelina said during aTIME 100 Talkin 2020. “She is my family, but she is an extraordinary African woman and her connection to her country, her continent, is her own and it’s something I only stand back in awe of.”

source: people.com