Winona's Charities
Winona is attached to the following charities.
Please visit their websites.
The Polly Klaas Foundation
The Polly Klaas Foundation helps to find kidnapped children.
They're supporting the parents, the police, the law enforcement officials and doing own research.
Winona is board member of the Polly Klaas Foundation.
Polly was so
excited. She told me her greatest dream was to meet Winona.
Eve
Klaas
I'm here to support
all of you. It really is a tragedy but Polly seems really smart.
Everything I've heard about her is she's smart, so maybe she can
outsmart some poeple out there.
Winona
She single-handedly
put the story back on the front pages. She was trying very, very hard
to get Polly back. They were both from the same city, and I think she
recognised something in Polly that was in herself.
Marc
Klaas
I attended the
trial and basically supported Winona, simply because she is my friend
and because of what she did for my family all those years ago when my
daughter was kidnapped.
And I would like to remind your watching,
viewing public that, despite the fact that she's just been convicted
of these two felonies, this is a young woman who, in an unsolicited
act of benevolence, offered up to $1 million of her own money for the
safe return of my daughter. And that's an act...[...]
I believe
that's an act that's kind of unprecedented in the entertainment
industry.
Marc Klaas about Winona during the
shoplifting trial
They were refusing
to write about it unless I did interviews, which was kind of
sick.
Winona about the press
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Winona's call for help on the local broadcasting stations.
Visit www.pollyklaas.org
Time Magazine from the 25th October 1993:
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WINONA RYDER DOES NOT WATCH THE NEWS IDLY. When she tuned in two weeks ago and heard about a 12-year-old girl who was kidnapped by an intruder during a slumber party, the 22-year-old Age of Innocence star found herself becoming emotional. "I put my hands over my face like, 'No, no, no, this can't be happening,'" says Winona, struck by the fact that the missing girl was from her own quiet hometown of Petaluma, California. "A crime against a child I just don't understand. I had to do something." Winona, who has wrapped up a new film, Reality Bites, did do something: she flew to Petaluma and offered a $200,000 reward* for information leading to the child's return. |
* Winona later raised the reward to $ 1 Million
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The Native American College Fund
The N*AC helps young native americans to get into college and pay the college fees.
Winona is a board member of the N*AC
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Visit http://www.collegefund.org
Free the West Memphis Three
The West Memphis Three were accused of murder and one of them was sentenced to death
There were only weak cirumstancial evidence against them.
Read more about the case at www.wm3.org
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Read Winona's speech at www.thebookla.com at the opening of a exhibition about the West Memphis Three.
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ONE Campaign – To make poverty history
To anyone who things the ONE slogan sounds familiar is right – the ONE campaign is the successor of Live Aid / Band Aid
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Go and sign their petitions:
United Cancer Front
Winona attended a charity for the United Cancer Front in 2005
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