Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt make the best of their New York stay

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are making good use of their time in New York, the world's financial capital and the seat of the United Nations, to promote their humanitarian endeavors.

Wednesday, 26 September 2007, was an eventful day for the couple, reports People magazine.
Brad attended a luncheon at the third annual Clinton Global Initiative conference in the city and sought commitments for his Make It Right program under which he and billionaire partner Steve Bing plan to build 150 affordable and environmentally friendly homes in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward.

Pitt and Bing promised to match commitments made under CGI to the extent of $ 5 million.
CGI is a non-partisan catalyst for action initiative that invites leaders from countries, non-profit organizations, charities, and businesses to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges.

Also on Wednesday, Jolie, a Goodwill Ambassador for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), attended a press conference with the High Commissioner Antonio Guteres, to promote the Nine Million initiative of the agency which aims to educate nine million refugee children affected by violence and conflict by 2010.

Later that evening, in a session focused exclusively on education for children in Iraq and Darfur, 32-year-old Jolie provided her insight based on her recent visits there.

"These are the children who most need a safe place to learn, a place to heal, a place to learn reconciliation, and a place to just be children," she said.

"Some think we should only provide emergency relief to children in conflict ... They say education is not life-saving. All of us here today would beg to differ," she added.

Even as they promote their humanitarian endeavors the couple continues to devote a large part of their time to their four children, three of whom are adopted. They also continue to make a living. Brad Pitt is frequently seen in the city on the sets of his under production film Burn After Reading, which costars his friend George Clooney.

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