Last December, Bilson traveled to Botswana and South Africa to report on the improvements diamond mining has made in the lives of the people there. As posted here, she did a partnership with InStyle.com to sold a bracelet designed by her, which money raised will help purchase additional student housing for the CIDA City Campus in Johannesburg, Africa’s first practically free university.

InStyle.com has an exclusive video that can be watched here and captures was added to gallery:

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