Emma Watson Auctions her Shoes for Charity

Nov 09, 2015

Posted by: Catherine

News, Watson

Over the weekend, Emma Watson participated in an auction for the Small Steps Project. Small Steps provides emergency aid, food and shoes to children and others living in communities in municipal garbage dumps around the world. They accept donations of time and skills from willing working volunteers, people will to participate at their events, and donations, especially from companies who are donating products and services. Small Steps describes their two main goals:

We deliver our projects in two phases. In the first phase we deliver emergency aid distribution projects, providing items that will protect people from the immediate dangers on rubbish dumps: from shoes, gloves and clothing to mosquito nets food and water.

 This enables us to establish the demographics of the dump and devise and implement our second phase-sustainable projects that aim to reduce the time children spend on dumps and support them in taking small steps into education.

 

Emma Watson participated in one of Small Steps’ funding campaigns, the Celebrity Shoe Auction. Watson donated a signed pair of Jimmy Choo shoes (size 37.5 EU), which she wore to the premiere of My Week with Marylyn. Pictures of these shoes and of Emma wearing them (as well as pictures of the shoes Emma donated last year) can be seen on the Small Steps website.

The auction closed last night, and Emma’s shoes gathered £2,622.00 for the winning bid in 51 bids.

 

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