How Angelina Jolie's NGO offers free legal aid to kids

Aryad, 16, had fled conflict in Africa and reached the Polish border alone. He had just completed a dangerous journey and was traumatised. Unfamiliar with the asylum procedure, he was at risk of being returned to danger. His future looked uncertain.This is the kind of case Kids in Need of Defense, known as KIND, was established to address. According to the organisation, a lawyer from its network stepped in, helped establish that the boy was an unaccompanied child and secured his placement in foster care. The lawyer stayed with the child throughout the asylum process. "Aryad is now rebuilding his life and pursuing vocational training," the NGO said in its July 2026 report.“At KIND, we do this work for kids who made their dangerous journey to safety alone in hopes of one day living a more secure future filled with promise,” Wendy Young, KIND’s president, said.Angelina Jolie joined hands with MicrosoftIn 2008, Microsoft and Angelina Jolie, who is now listed as the organisation’s co-founder and patron, established KIND, an NGO devoted to protecting unaccompanied and separated children.Children who arrived in the United States without a parent often faced immigration court proceedings a...