A great new in-depth feature on Rooney has surfaced (including a new portrait picture, click thumbnail on left to see full size), and instead of focusing on her impressive rising film career, it goes into great detail on her other passion: her charity Faces of Kibera.

Important to highlight is the Faces of Kibera eBay auction currently taking place, which features tons of amazing one-of-a-kind sports and entertainment memorabilia, with all proceeds benefitting the charity.

A face of caring
By Chris Serico

Once reluctant to pursue the career that made her older sister, Kate Mara, a movie star, actress Rooney Mara never hesitated to follow a calling that often takes her 7,337 miles from her native Bedford.

In just her early 20s, Rooney Mara is the founder of a charity that benefits young orphans in Kibera, an African slum of about 1 million people living in 1 square mile of Nairobi, Kenya. And through Sunday, her online auction of sports- and entertainment-themed rarities will raise thousands more dollars to help build and support a facility on land she bought for Faces of Kibera.

”I went there, one of the last times I was there, in my pigtails, and bought 6 acres of land,“ she says with a wide smile. ”It was crazy.“

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