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Celebrities auction shoes on eBay for charity

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The Nobel Prize-winning charity Mines Advisory Group (MAG)

has garnered celebrity support from the likes of Katy Perry, Pink and Nelly Furtado for a landmine clearance charity auction on eBay.

Drawing attention to the part of the body most at risk to landmines, Give Landmines the Boot is a campaign from MAG to raise vital funds for humanitarian work clearing mines.
 
Over 60 famous faces have donated footwear. Mercury Prize winners and devoted MAG supporters Elbow signed a pair of classic Converse and Dame Shirley Bassey donated a glamorous pair of heels. Other items up for grabs include a pair of Vivienne Westwood shoes and sports supremo Roger Federer's tennis shoes.
 
All the money raised from the auction will go towards MAG's lifesaving operations worldwide including Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Angola, Colombia, Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Lebanon, Sudan, Sri Lanka, Somalia and Cyprus.
 
Bids can be placed on MAG's Give Landmines the Boot eBay auction site which launched on Thursday July 22 and finishes on August 1.
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