OMG! This is not the MTV I grew up with! How old am I? I think this is so great. Evidently, MTV has a sub-brand called thinkMTV that helps educate youth, it would seem, on major world issues. They have a series called Diary where one episode features Angelina Jolie and Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa on May 29-30, 2005. It's available in its entirety on MTV Overdrive.

PLEASE WATCH THIS AMAZING VIDEO DIARY! This is what I'm throwing my life at in Malawi. This video diary shows how the Millennium Villages plan is working! It really brings to life all the simple, fixable issues Sachs talks about in his book.
http://www.mtv.com/thinkmtv/global/diary/angelina_jolie/


Here's the summary from the thinkMTV web page:

Spending two long days in Sauri, Sachs exposes Jolie to every corner of village life to reveal his vision for ending extreme poverty by 2015. In a small hut, he demonstrates how a simple $10.00 bed net keeps families safe from Malaria, a disease that kills over three million people every year. In an open field, Jolie learns how basic instruction in proper farming techniques and fertilizer use can produce enough food to keep villagers alive on land that has failed to yield sustainable crops for generations. And, in a moving sequence featuring the town's young people, Jolie discovers how free school lunches are giving children a reason to come to class and learn - and that one computer is connecting this tiny village to the rest of the world.