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Handout photo released by the UNHCR of UNHCR Special Envoy, US actress Angelina Jolie (R), listening to Venezuelan women at a shelter in Lima, on October 21, 2018. Over two million Venezuelans have left their country since 2015. Peru is one of the countries most impacted by the outflow of Venezuelan refugees and migrants – the largest movement of people in Latin America’s recent history. - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / UNHCR / S. ESCOBAR-JARAMILLO" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS / AFP / UNHCR / Santiago ESCOBAR-JARAMILLO / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / UNHCR / S. ESCOBAR-JARAMILLO" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS Image Credit: AFP

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, visiting Peru in her capacity as special envoy of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), has met with Venezuelan migrants at a shelter in Lima run by volunteers.

It was her first official activity on Monday as the filmmaker launched her three-day mission to evaluate the needs of the Venezuelan refugees “and observe Peru’s generous response,” the UN High Commissioner of Refugees said in a statement.

Jolie went to working-class San Juan de Lurigancho neighbourhood to visit the Sin Fronteras (Without Borders) shelter, which opened more than a year ago to provide lodging and food for Venezuelans fleeing economic crisis in their homeland, Efe news reported.

Videos posted on social media showed Jolie chatting with the migrants.

Peru has received 456,000 Venezuelans in the past 18 months, second only to Colombia.

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Handout photo released by the UNHCR of UNHCR Special Envoy, US actress Angelina Jolie (R), listening to a young Venezuelan dancer who fled to Peru at a shelter in Lima, on October 21, 2018. Over two million Venezuelans have left their country since 2015. Peru is one of the countries most impacted by the outflow of Venezuelan refugees and migrants – the largest movement of people in Latin America’s recent history. - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / UNHCR / S. ESCOBAR-JARAMILLO" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS / AFP / UNHCR / Santiago ESCOBAR-JARAMILLO / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / UNHCR / S. ESCOBAR-JARAMILLO" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS Image Credit: AFP
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