Priyanka Chopra Pledges Support To Global Online Auction Of Artwork By Underprivileged Indian Children

Priyanka Chopra Jonas has pledged her support to ‘Beauty Without Boundaries 2020’ - a global online auction of artwork made by underprivileged Indian children that will launch on October 12. Besides Jonas, other notable participants include her husband, Nick Jonas, Aamir Khan, Shashi Tharoor, and Danny Boyle. These famous personalities will lend support to the cause by holding 15-minute long virtual conversations with the highest bidders at the auction.

What You Should Know: 

• Priyanka Chopra Jonas has pledged her support to ‘Beauty Without Boundaries 2020’ - a global online auction of artwork made by underprivileged Indian children that will launch on October 12.
• Other notable participants include her husband, Nick Jonas, Aamir Khan, Shashi Tharoor, Danny Boyle, Vanessa German and Anjolie Ela Menon. 
• They will hold 15-minute long virtual conversations with the highest bidders at the auction.
• Artrepreneur, the Aseema Charitable Trust in India and Friends of Aseema are sponsoring the event that will go on till October 25. 
• UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra Jonas has supported various social causes in the past as well. 

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Priyanka Chopra Jonas Pledges Support For Underprivileged Indian Children

As per ANI, Artrepreneur, a digital membership platform for visual artists and creatives, the Aseema Charitable Trust in India, and Friends of Aseema, a nonprofit corporation, are the sponsors for ‘Beauty Without Boundaries 2020.’ The auction will feature over 20 artworks created by underprivileged children from Mumbai who have been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. The children - ranging in age from ten to seventeen years – will contribute diverse works of art like watercolour landscapes, mixed media, and pen-and-ink drawings.

Besides Chopra Jonas, other female participants include award-winning artist and poet Vanessa German, contemporary artist Anjolie Ela Menon, and late children’s television personality Fred Rogers’ wife Joanne Rogers. The auction will go on till October 25. All proceeds from the auction will be used to aid the Aseema Charitable Trust in providing education and medical facilities for Indian unprivileged children.

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Priyanka Chopra Jonas’ Philanthropic Endeavours

As the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Priyanka Chopra Jonas frequently supports ventures aimed at the welfare and development of underprivileged communities. Earlier this year, Chopra Jonas partnered with electronics giant JBL to help children in Los Angeles adapt to online learning by providing them with headphones.

In April 2020, Chopra Jonas also took part in the World Health Organization and Global Citizen’s 'One World: Together At Home' - a star-studded virtual event organised to raise funds for those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan also participated in this event. Last year, Priyanka Chopra Jonas collaborated with footwear retailer Crocs to provide 50, 000 pairs of classic clogs to underprivileged children in a Central American country called Belize.

However, in August 2019, Chopra was called out at an event in the US for a tweet she posted in February amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan. Several people pointed out that it is not a correct stance for a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for peace to take. Earlier this year, she was also trolled for speaking up against racism and violence that the African-American community faces in the US, in light of George Floyd’s custodial death. The outrage was because she never chose to speak out during the CAA-NRC protests and Delhi riots.

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Tarini Gandhiok is an intern with SheThePeople.TV