angelinarefugeeecuador.jpgPhoto credit: UNHCR/J. Bjorgvinsson

Angelina Jolie has gone straight from her work on The Tourist in Europe to her work as a UN Goodwill Ambassador, returning to Ecuador eight years after she first visited the country to check in on conditions for refugees.

Angelina smiled as she played with young Colombian children at a daycare center that aides families displaced from their native country after conflict drove them out years ago.

"I wanted to come back and meet with vulnerable people and focus on violence against women and unaccompanied minors," Jolie said of her trip to Ecuador. "I am so happy to be able to reconnect with some familiar faces, refugees I had met with during my 2002 trip."

Angelina has been in the South American country helping to raise awareness for World Refugee day, which is June 20th.