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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Jennifer Aniston's charity action

Apart from being a very busy and succesful actress, Jennifer Aniston devotes much of her time to charity organisations and emergency financial asistance projects.

She has been seen on Pubic Service Announcements (PSA) for the St Jude's Children Research Hospital which she has been supporting since 2008. In 2009, in further support of St Jude's, Ms Aniston and her father, actor John Aniston, had recorded an audio chilldren's book ''Loukoumis's good deeds'',  the proceeds of which went to St Jude's Children Research Hospital.



The actress has also helped raise funds for Friends of El Faro, a non profit organisation that helps raise money for an orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico.

In 2011, Jennifer Aniston spent $450,000 on a painting at the 'Artists of Haiti' auction in New York, an event that was co-organised by Ms Aniston's close friend Ben Stiller and raised in total $13,662,000 to benefit health and education initiatives in Haiti.

In 2011, Ms Aniston was among the stars who designed a limited edition of Holiday Cards for Tiny Prints. Proceeds from the sales were given to benefit the Epidermolysis Bullosa Medical Research Foundation which helps adults and children struggling with skin disorders .It was on that year, that in an effort to bring Breast Cancer Awareness,  the Hollywood star designed a T-shirt for Warriors in Pink and 100% of the proceeds went towards finding a cure for Breast Cancer.


In 2010, Ms Aniston donated $500,000 to the Haiti relief appeal. The star gave the generous amount to Doctors without borders, Partners in Health and AmeriCares to help aid victims of the two devestating earthquakes in Caribbean Nation earlier that year.

To help free Burma, the 43 year old actress directed and starred in a video 'It can't wait'  while she teamed up with her close friend Courteney Cox, to campaign for the rights of women in Congo. Specifically the two FRIENDS stars, supported OmniPeace to help stopping violence by asking technology buffs to avoid buying electronics that contained materials from 'conflict mines'.

In 2007 Jennifer Aniston received the GLAAD'S Vanguard Award forher contributions to the gay, lesbian and transgender community.

Here's a link with all the Charities & Foundations supported by Jennifer Aniston.
http://www.google.gr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CCUQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.looktothestars.org%2Fcelebrity%2Fjennifer-aniston&ei=P1x-UPaFF4SO4gTXtoGIDA&usg=AFQjCNEWEGtqi-jhLkbiRzLH8DbuICW98Q&sig2=TEdTXA22veHuY0wj-7RWwA


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