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Celebs Who Give Back: Selena Gomez

Many celebs put their name on something.

Whether it’s makeup, skin care products, restaurants and even food brands, they make known what they like by showing support for the company. While this is all great, we can’t help but think there are more important things they can put their name and faces to.

This four part series will explore the lives of four of our favorite celebrity philanthropists, what they do and how they’re putting their celebrity to good use. Second on our list is Selena Gomez.

She came into our lives as Alex Russo on Wizards of Waverly place. She warmed our hearts in her multiple movie roles and we really felt we got to know her when she started her band Selena Gomez and the Scene and released her clothing line Dream Out Loud through K-Mart stores.

But there’s so much more to Selena than film credits and hit singles. Shortly after Wizards premiered in 2007, she began to use her celebrity to raise awareness to certain causes and organizations.

In 2008, she began work with the UR Vote Counts campaign to tell youth voters to learn about the then presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama, and make their voices heard.

That year, she also began her widely known work with UNICEF.

According to their website, UNICEF’s mission is to do “whatever it takes to save and protect the world’s most vulnerable children. Forty years ago, UNICEF figured out that promoting simple, low-cost interventions like hand washing and breastfeeding could save millions of lives. Undaunted by war or geography, UNICEF delivers.

She raised $700,000 for UNICEF with their Trick-or-Treat campaign in 2008. In August 2009, the company named Selena the new–and youngest–youth ambassador of UNICEF at the age of 17. A month later, she was sent on her first mission to Ghana where she was able to see firsthand what the company was all about.

“I got to meet teens, I got to meet children, I got to meet families,” she told the Associated Press. “It was completely life-changing and eye-opening, and when [me, my mom and stepfather] came back we definitely had nothing to complain about.”

According to the UNICEF website she was named the spokesperson for Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF campaign in 2009 and 2010 and in 2010 she raised $4 million dollars. She gave her time to the campaign by donating items to an auction, creating a T-shirt with her Dream Out Loud clothing line, as well as performing a concert and holding a meet-and-greet.

Selena performed another charity concert in 2012 raising more than $200,000 for UNICEF, the website stated.

“Giving back has always been important to me,” Selena said. “This concert allows me to connect with my fans in person, which is one of the best parts of my job, and to raise money for important causes at the same time. I can’t think of anything I would enjoy doing more.”

 (Feature Photo via We Heart It)

 

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