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Paris Hilton to head to Rwanda next year
AP via Yahoo ^ | Tue Oct 30, 10:25 AM ET

Posted on 10/30/2007 10:40:38 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan

NEW YORK - Her trip to Rwanda has been postponed, but Paris Hilton is still determined to use her celebrity status for good causes.

"I want to travel the world," the 26-year-old socialite says in an interview posted on the Web site of the syndicated entertainment TV show "Extra." "I feel like there's a lot I can do, and a lot I can do to help."

The Playing for Good Foundation announced last week that Hilton's philanthropic trip to Rwanda has been postponed due to restructuring of the children's charity. On her itinerary: visits to schools and health-care clinics.

Hilton told "Extra" she will now pack her bags for the African country sometime next year.

"We were supposed to be going in November, but then the charity is doing restructuring and figuring things out. It's going to be for next year," she said. "I know (Rwanda) went through a lot of traumatic experiences, and I feel like if I go there, I can help save some people's lives."

Hilton announced the mission in September, several months after serving a 23-day jail sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.

"I want kids to know, even if you're 15 or 16 years old, you can do something," she said in the interview.


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Aren't these third-world countries suffering from enough disease already?
1 posted on 10/30/2007 10:40:40 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan
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To: ElkGroveDan

How about she gives most (98%) of her inheritance to charity?


2 posted on 10/30/2007 10:41:39 AM PDT by wastedyears (One Marine vs. 550 consultants. Sounds like good odds to me.)
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She can help feed the hungry.

Memo to Rwanda - put a pot of water on.


3 posted on 10/30/2007 10:41:46 AM PDT by MoMagic
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To: ElkGroveDan

muawahahaaa


4 posted on 10/30/2007 10:43:04 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: ElkGroveDan

Apparently not.

Ya gotta wonder about her parents. You’d think the porn home movie she made would have gotten their attention....


5 posted on 10/30/2007 10:43:08 AM PDT by Badeye ('Ron Paul joined 88 Democrats.....")
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To: ElkGroveDan

What did Rwanda do to piss us off so much that the State Department would allow Paris Hilton to go there.


6 posted on 10/30/2007 10:43:12 AM PDT by VRWCmember (Fred Thompson 2008! Taking America Back for Conservatives!)
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Rwanda has no drunk driving laws?


7 posted on 10/30/2007 10:43:27 AM PDT by TommyDale (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
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To: ElkGroveDan

Any chance we can get her to stay there?


8 posted on 10/30/2007 10:43:30 AM PDT by chrisser
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They do not need Paris. Some report she is borderline retarded. Imagine trying to get exclusive use for a simple sentence IIRC: “It’s hot.”


9 posted on 10/30/2007 10:43:45 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: ElkGroveDan

Does she have a globe so she knows where she is going?


10 posted on 10/30/2007 10:43:49 AM PDT by Long Island Pete
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To: ElkGroveDan

Obviously Paris has hired a new PR firm.


11 posted on 10/30/2007 10:44:10 AM PDT by joebuck
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Paris Hilton to head to Rwanda next year

Good maybe she'll stay there so I don't have to see her ugly face on the "news" any more.

12 posted on 10/30/2007 10:44:11 AM PDT by SwankyC
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She is going there to see health care clinics?

I guess with her background she probably does has the expertise to have an opinion of the quality of care in the VD ward...

13 posted on 10/30/2007 10:44:51 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: apocalypto

Um, I think she has that trademarked.


14 posted on 10/30/2007 10:46:20 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: ElkGroveDan
I hope she can get in. BTW, thats her parents house shes trying to get in. Post jail, and drunk.
15 posted on 10/30/2007 10:46:32 AM PDT by BGHater (Bread and Circuses)
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Image makeover...Probable suggestion by one of her handlers.
Only time will tell if she is sincere.


16 posted on 10/30/2007 10:46:47 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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She’d fit in better in Ethiopia, methinks.


17 posted on 10/30/2007 10:47:11 AM PDT by LIConFem (Thompson 2008. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter 2008 (VP) Lifetime ACU Rating: 92)
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To: ElkGroveDan

Let’s hope the skank stays there.


18 posted on 10/30/2007 10:47:23 AM PDT by lesser_satan (READ MY LIPS: NO NEW RINOS | FRED THOMPSON '08)
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To: ElkGroveDan

IBMTC


19 posted on 10/30/2007 10:47:25 AM PDT by shbox (BobbyHill: "What's the matter with those people, Dad?" HankHill: "They're hippies, son")
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To: 1rudeboy

How is that possible? It is just a simple sentence.


20 posted on 10/30/2007 10:48:18 AM PDT by apocalypto
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