Love how dedicated Rooney is to her charity work and the town of Kibera. These necklaces are super cute so be sure to pick one up and support a great cause!

Rooney Mara may be out of the spotlight right now as she gears up to promote her highly-anticipated movie The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo this December, but she’s still finding time to do charity work. Recently, Mara teamed up with KORA —a Los Angeles and East Africa-based jewelry company that creates pieces out of recycled objects— to promote this necklace made from recycled bone and brass (shown). KORA’s Maxandra Short and Amy Walker designed the piece, and 100% of proceeds will be donated to a charity close to Mara’s heart, Uweza, a non-profit organization dedicated to abolishing poverty in the Kibera section of Nairobi, Kenya. “I’m excited to be working with KORA to help bring attention to Uweza, an organization that does such good work and that I’m proud to be a part of,” Mara told InStyle. The necklace is available for $95 in silver or gold on KoraDesigns.com.

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Thanks once again to the awesome David JR for sending us this great video he shot of Rooney attending a charity gala for Kenya, hosted by her organization Faces of Kibera and several other charities benefiting the people of Kenya. To help the cause, there is an auction happening right now where you can bid on some amazing items, all the while helping the cause. Be sure to take a look!

Below is the video of Rooney and her fellow champions of Kenya talking about their respective charities and experiences.

138 x Screen Captures – 05.26.10: 1st Annual Kenya Charity Gala

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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