Actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have donated $1 million to US and Iraqi children suffering from the war in Iraq, for educational aid that will hopefully help them “heal.”

The Jolie-Pitt Foundation has pledged the sum of $1 million to the Educational Partnership for Children of Conflict, a non-profit organization co-founded by Jolie in 2007.

Half of the sum will go to the Armed Services YMCA Operation Hero Program, which will provide educational tutors and counseling to 2,500 children of military personnel serving in Iraq, reports Reuters.

Benefiting from the other half will be Iraqi women and children, whose basic needs will be met. They will also receive educational support, in the form of books and supplies so that Iraqi children may go to school.

In total, some 5,700 children will be helped through the Jolie-Pitt donation, the EPCC said. The groups dealing with Iraqi women and children are Women for Women International; The International Rescue Committee; and NineMillion.org, part of the United National High Commissioner for Refugees, per Reuters.

Jolie has been a United Nations goodwill ambassador for several years and has visited the war-torn country on two occasions. Such is her care for the situation that in February when, although not publicly acknowledged at the time, she was pregnant, she joined under secretary of State Paula Dobriansky on a US government mission with the State Department to Iraq.

Her humanitarian trip to Baghdad included an exclusive interview with CNN, whom she told that “what happens in Iraq and how Iraq settles in the years to come is going to affect the entire Middle East,” and expressed her concern for people returning and settling “into their homes and their community” and whether they can be “brought back together and whether they can live together” adequately.

Regarding her and Pitt’s donation, Jolie said, as quoted by People.com, that “educational support programs for children of conflict are the best way to help them heal.”