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'Don't Forget' Haiti pendant
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The “Don’t Forget” Haiti pendant necklace that Maria helped to design was launched this week, and Maria has been promoting it. On Tuesday she attended the launch for it in New York, alongside Judith Leiber president Mary Gleason, and Gossip Girl actress Kelly Rutherford. Maria looked gorgeous in a little beige dress! She has also posed for some photos to promote the pendant, and done a couple of interviews to promote it and the continuing need for aid for Haiti (see posts below).
Photos from the launch, of Maria modelling the pendant, and some candids of Maria and her son out and about last week have all been added to our Gallery!
If you want to support the cause, and have some spare money, head on over to the Judith Leiber website to purchase a pendant.
Long before Haiti was devastated by a massive earthquake, actress Maria Bello was working there helping the poor. It’s been six months since the quake rattled the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Bello stops by Good Day NY to update us on what she’s seen and where the rebuilding efforts stand.
Bello is co-hosting a benefit for the Haitian chapter of Vital Voices On Tuesday, July 13 from 7 p.m.- 9 p.m. at 680 Madison Avenue in Manhattan. The ‘Don’t Forget’ pendant designed by Judith Lieber will be on sale for $95. All proceeds from the sale of the limited edition design will benefit Vital Voices which empowers Haitian women.
For more details on ‘The Don’t Forget’ pendant and the kick-off event, CLICK HERE.
Bello is best known for her roles on “ER” and “Coyote Ugly” and now she is working on The Mummy 4: Rise of the Aztec.
Hip-hop star WYCLEF JEAN and actress MARIA BELLO are calling for more action to help rebuild earthquake-ravaged Haiti, exactly six months on from the disaster.
The former Fugees star and the Coyote Ugly actress have been part of the relief efforts since the devastating tremor hit the nation on 12 January (10).
But despite being impressed with the amount of money that has been raised to overcome the earthquake, both stars claim victims of the tragedy are still suffering because they aren’t getting enough aid.
On Monday (12Jul10) – the six-month anniversary of the quake – Jean and Bello appeared on U.S. talk show Larry King Live to appeal for more action.
The APJ site also has lots of other videos and photos that show how they are helping there, and give you a good glimpse into the effect of the earthquake on the country.
I’ve added over 200 photos from various recent(-ish) appearances today! This includes photos from the The Yellow Handkerchief premiere held in February that I never found time to add pics from until now. There are also 3 new-old event additions – a Boston Common party held last summer, two Joyful Heart events, and a Haiti relief brunch held earlier this year. On top of that, there are various additions to a few other event albums from the past few months – click Last Uploads to see everything added.
Also, you may (or may not!) be wondering why the appearance categories from earlier years are still empty – I had a ton of stuff on my external hard-drive saved and ready to be sorted and added, but very unfortunately I had a problem with that external HD. It went in to be fixed last summer and has not come back yet! I’m still waiting with much hope that it will come back safe very soon. Once I get some definite news on it I will start working as quickly as possible to build those appearance sections up. I’ll also be adding a trillion magazine scans once my scanner is fixed too (I’m not having too much luck with equipment at the moment!). Cross your fingers for me
Written by Maria Bello, Amber Valletta and Eva Longoria Parker for huffingtonpost.com.
Urbans is a 7-year-old boy who lives in a makeshift shelter covered with bed sheets at the Petionville Displaced Person’s Camp in Port-au-Prince where I (Maria) have worked for the last two months. The first day I met him, a week after the devastating earthquake on January 12, he asked me to marry him. Of course I said yes. He is a gregarious boy, all smiles, smarts and wit. Shocking, as he lost most of his family and his home in the quake.
Last week, after a night of heavy rain, Urbans showed up at our camp with one flip-flop much too big for him and soggy, muddy clothes. I asked him where his other shoe was and he told me in broken English, “The mud stole it.”
After more than two months, hundreds of thousands of Haitians are still without tents. The rainy season is upon us and the hurricane season starts in May. Though many of the big aid organizations are doing their best to provide shelter, the “regulation” tents are still hard to come by and the bureaucracy of the aid world makes for a painfully slow process.
That is why we have created “Raise the Roof,” a campaign to IMMEDIATELY get these much needed tents to the ground. A Home in Haiti and L’Athletique d’Haiti have joined forces to acquire and distribute the tents to the people who urgently need them in the hundreds of displaced persons camps in Haiti.
You can help Urbans and all of the homeless in Haiti by purchasing a tent with only one click of a button. Please go to www.ahomeinhaiti.org to order yours.
Thank you in advance from the good people of Haiti.
Actresses EVA LONGORIA PARKER, AMBER VALLETTA and MARIA BELLO have teamed up to urge the U.S. public to back a new Haiti charity campaign.
The trio has penned an open letter asking Americans to dig deep and donate to the Raise the Roof appeal, which aims to buy tents to shelter locals left homeless by January’s (10) devastating earthquake.
The letter reads:
“With rainy season just two weeks away, more than a million Haitian people are still displaced as a result of the January 12th earthquake and are living in tent cities in shelters made of makeshift tarps and cotton bed sheets. Two nights ago at the Petionville Displacement Camp in Port-au-Prince, the rains were so hard that the entire village was a foot thick in mud by the next morning.
“These people need SHELTER more than anything right now. That is why A Home In Haiti and Athletique d’Haiti have created Raise the Roof, a campaign to IMMEDIATELY obtain tents and get them out to the hundreds of various displacement camps.
“Because we work on the ground in Haiti we can GUARANTEE that all tents will get to the ground and be put to use RIGHT NOW. Our goal is to get 100,000 tents to Haiti within two weeks. Please go to www.ahomeinhaiti.org to buy a tent with just one click.
“Thank you in advance from the people of Haiti. All Our Best, Eva Longoria Parker, Amber Valletta and Maria Bello and (Director of A Home in Haiti) Shaun King.”
The newly single actress — she split with musician fiancé Bryn Mooser last year — doesn’t have the air of mystery that many women do.
“I don’t really date,” admits Bello from her home in Venice, Calif. “What I always think when I’m speaking to a man is that they’ve already seen me naked. Or if they haven’t, they can Google me and see me naked.”
Indeed, Bello has appeared in graphic sex scenes in a number of roles, albeit respectable ones, including as a Vegas waitress in The Cooler, and a suffering wife in A History of Violence.
Not that she’s actively looking.
“I’ve never had a traditional relationship,” says the 42-year-old Pennsylvania native. “I’ve never been married. Though I’ve been close, I’ve never quite pulled the plug!”
Add to that — Bello’s plate is pretty full. She’s currently promoting The Yellow Handkerchief, out Friday. It’s a road trip movie about an ex con (William Hurt) trying to get back to his lost love (Bello). Along the way he meets up with two teens — one being Twilight’s Kristen Stewart (the film was shot in 2008 — pre vampire furor).
Actor Sean Penn and actress Maria Bello met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Haiti on Sunday.
The 49-year-old actor came to Haiti about a week after the quake and his blue-shirted workers with the newly formed Jenkins-Penn Haiti Relief Organization provide medical care, water filters and food.
“I think this is a very complicated situation here, and there are so many voices and so many vested interests, when it comes to aid, that it is very difficult to brake through the red tape of it,” Sean Penn said.
Behind the tents is a country club that became the base of the US Army 82nd Airborne in the days after the disaster.
A few weeks ago Maria attended another Artists For Peace And Justice event, this time hosted by Vanity Fair and Brioni. Photos have now been added to the Gallery, and you can read a short article about this event below.
