Kristen Stewart Does Charity Work Based on Film Roles
Kristen Stewart as Teenage Runaway in Welcome to the Rileys In an interview with Vogue Magazine where The Twilight Saga star is on the cover of the February 2011 issue, Kristen Stewart reveals her dreams of creating halfway houses for teenage runaways.
“[Kristen Stewart] is thinking carefully, strategically, about how best to put her own contribution to use, and has a plan—inspired by her researches for the role of a runaway in the sex trade—to set up a network of halfway houses to help those who want to recover and get back on their feet. “That would be amazing,” she says. “Right now it’s the thing I feel most connected to.””
Thanks to RadarOnline for the Vogue link.
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Kristen Stewart with Diabetes in Panic Room As the daughter of Jodie Foster in Panic Room who’s afflicted with diabetes, Kristen Stewart attended a fundraiser for juvenile diabetes.
“Kristen Stewart joined boxer Sugar Ray Leonard Sunday morning, [08 November 2009], as the Celebrity Walk Ambassadors for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s annual Walk To Cure Diabetes.”
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Kristen Stewart as Rape Victim in Speak In a fitting move that ties in with her work in the indie film Speak, which dealt with school rape, The Twilight Saga star Kristen Stewart shares her stellar stature to bring focus on the cause of Security On Campus, an organization dedicated to the “improvement of campus safety.”
Kristen Stewart with Incurable Disease in Cake Eaters Kristen Stewart played a girl with Friedreich’s Ataxia, “a rare disease for which there is currently no cure,” in the film The Cake Eaters. The film is instrumental in raising awareness and funds for the Mary Gates Foundation
“Jennifer Farmer, the Executive Director of the Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA) – a non-profit organization that funds and facilitates research into treatments and a cure for Friedreich’s Ataxia, stated, “We are grateful to Jayce Bartok, Mary Stuart Masterson, 57th & Irving Productions, The 7th Floor and the cast and crew of The Cake Eaters for telling a story of living life fully despite disability – one all too familiar to many of our FA families.”"
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February 27th, 2011 at 1:42 am
Kristen’s really really a nice girl, talented, humble and have a golden heart! I pray the best for her…love her sooo much!!!
PS: WTTR is amazing movie
February 28th, 2011 at 4:59 am
See that’s why Kristen’s awesome. She wants to do back so much for society and uses het own movie experiences so she sorta knows how it is. She’s just so down to earth and just herself. And I recently saw wttr and that was à good movie. I also saw panic room en speak Which were great too!