Brad and Angelina’s $300,000 gift to Namibia

ANGELINA JOLIE and Brad Pitt have donated $300,000 (€235,256) to buy equipment for the maternity wards at Namibia’s state hospitals following the birth of their daughter in the south-west African nation.

Their baby daughter is to be offered Namibian citizenship.

It also emerged yesterday that Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt will be given a passport by the African nation where she was born if her parents, who were said to be “thoroughly overjoyed” by her arrival, want it. Meanwhile a source close to the couple told People magazine, mother and daughter were doing very well.

“Angie and baby are fantastic,” the source said.

“Brad was at her side during the birth.”

Shiloh, whose name means “the peaceful one” in Hebrew, was born on Saturday night in The Cottage Hospital in Swakopmund, according to the magazine.

“We want to contribute to Namibia and the people who have been so gracious to us at this time,” Pitt and Jolie said in a statement released by the country’s environment and tourism ministry.

“The supplies are earmarked to improve the hospital’s maternity wards and will contribute significantly to the health of Namibian babies,” Mr Jooste said.

According to gossip columns, the new baby has her mother’s dark hair and her father’s nose.

Jolie already has two adopted children, Maddox, four and Zahara, one.

Their surnames were legally changed to Jolie-Pitt after the actor announced he planned to co-adopt them.