Rachel Weisz has supported various worthy causes over the years, according to Look to the Stars, including the African Rainforest Conservancy, Cancer Research UK, and the Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation. She’s also offered up either her time, resources, or public profile to organizations like the Pediatric Epilepsy Project, Worldwide Orphans Foundation, and Only Make Believe. The groups Weisz supports often help children in various ways, like the latter, which “is a non-profit organization that creates and performs interactive theatre for children in hospitals, care facilities and special education programs throughout the New York and Washington DC metropolitan areas, free of charge to every site, family, and child.”
In more recent years, Weisz and other fellow famous figures, like Gillian Anderson, Kristen Bell, and Benedict Cumberbatch, have been involved with the Small Steps Project. The organization “provide[s] emergency aid, shoes, and food to children and communities living on municipal rubbish dumps around the world.” The group, which is obviously motivated by good intentions, also “provide[s] support for children to take steps into education and adults into employment.”
To help out, Weisz has donated shoes she’s worn for auction, such as “a gorgeous pair of signed, navy suede, Georgio Armani kitten heels in an EU size 39.” However, whoever snapped them up might not actually want to wear the heels, as the star autographed the shoes, which surely gave them a little extra value and might make them better suited for a display case as opposed to a closet.