Look To The Stars News: Ralph Fiennes

Colin Firth Donates Shoes To Celebrity Charity Auction

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:00:00 +0000

The Small Steps Project will be holding the 2011 London Celebrity Shoe Auction and the premier of the new film at a fundraising evening at The Royal Society of Medicine on October 12.

The event aims to raise awareness and funds so that we can continue to assist children in poverty on rubbish dumps around the world.

Ralph Fiennes’ Promise To Children In Good Times And Bad

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:00:00 +0000

Actor Ralph Fiennes, UNICEF UK Ambassador, has made a small video on his promise to children. The video clip and his promise are in support of UNICEF’s Promise Me Campaign.

In anticipation of the G8 summit that took place earlier this month, UNICEF wanted to bring attention to the millions of children around the world who are unable to live a normal childhood even though the “convention on the rights of the child” was ratified by most countries twenty years ago. It is violated everyday, especially in places such as Somalia and Chad.

Fiennes went to Chad to meet with some of the children, and listened to their “horrific stories of degrading and brutalizing treatment.”

Michelle Yeoh Against Illegal Wildlife Trade

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:56:53 +0000

Actress and former beauty queen Michelle Yeoh has joined WildAid in utilizing YouTube to post videos on the wildlife poaching crisis. WildAid is a non-profit organization that seeks to put an end to illegal wildlife trade “by focusing on awareness to reduce the demand for threatened and endangered species products and to increase public support for wildlife conservation.”

With awareness in mind, using WildAid’s motto: When the buying stops the killing can too, Jackie Chan, Ralph Fiennes, Ang Lee, Minnie Driver and other stars have posted short public service announcement videos on YouTube as well, Chan’s being the most graphic, against the illegal trade and its costs.

WildAid works worldwide with governments, communities and celebrities to make wildlife conservation a global priority.

Gorbachev Cancer Fundraiser Draws Stars

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:13:15 +0000

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev hosted a gala dinner last weekend to raise money for the cancer charity he established in memory of his wife.

Raisa Gorbachev died of leukemia in 1999, and the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation aims to create a specialist hospital in St. Petersburg, Russia, that will provide high-quality medical care to children with cancer.

The gala event at Hampton Court Palace was attended by Bob Geldof, former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, actors Ralph Fiennes, Kim Cattrall and Anna Friel, singer Rod Stewart, authors Tom Wolfe and JK Rowling and supermodel Elle Macpherson.

Fiennes, Shilpa Raise AIDS Awareness in India

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:23:18 +0000

British actor Ralph Fiennes and the UK Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty are doing their parts to raise AIDS awareness in India.

With 5.7 million infections, India has the world’s largest number of people living with HIV and AIDS. According to UNAIDS figures 202,000 of these are children, with about 60,000 more children likely to be born with HIV every year.

Although the Indian government offers free drugs and people are gradually beginning to speak openly about the issues involved, a social stigma commonly surrounds the disease. People affected by HIV and AIDS are often disowned by their famies, denied treatment at hospitals, made outcasts in their communities, and their children barred from schools.