Maria Sharapova Signed Shoes

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Ended:November 21st 2017, 4:14pm EST

Winner: danke2010

$401

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The Prize

Maria Sharapova is one of the most well-known and influential female tennis players of all time. Sharapova has won twenty-nine WTA singles titles, including four Grand Slam singles titles.

She has been a repeat donor for the past four years. Last year, Maria donated the shoes in which she beat Venus Williams at the Sydney 2013 Australian open.

This year for the 2017 auction, Maria has donated pink and purple trainers made exclusively for her by Nike in a size WS 9.5, signed on the toe of both shoes.

"The Small Steps Project is a great charity, as it brings more awareness to something most of us can’t even imagine exists; children living in rubbish dumps. The organization provides help to immediate needs and later guides many young lives into the world of education to give them a hopeful start in life. I would like to support this project with a pair of my own shoes in the auction to help provide some more necessities to children out there living in this horrible condition."

Details:

Nike tennis shoes, pink and purple with orange Nike swoosh
UK 9.5
Signed on the front toe of both shoes

(Photo Credit: I Heart Studios)

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The Cause

Small Steps Project is a children’s charity dealing with the most devastating humanitarian consequence of the global waste problem: child waste pickers.

All over the world thousands of children survive by collecting and recycling rubbish on landfill sites. Deprived of an education, they work when they should be at school and put their lives at risk on a daily basis. Work on the dumps is dirty and dangerous. As well as respiratory and skin diseases, cuts and lacerations to their hands and feet are commonplace and risk of infection is extremely high in the toxic environment.

Small Steps Project provides shoes to protect their feet and support to enable them to take small steps off the dump sites, out of poverty and into education.

To date, Small Steps Project has provided shoes and aid to over 20,000 children thanks to the money raised from shoes, all donated and signed by some of the most famous celebrities in the world.

Website

smallstepsproject.org

Item #P18561

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