SHAKIRA FIGHTS CHILDHOOD HUNGER
The Colombian pop singer Shakira, whose 2006 hit “Hips Don’t Lie” is among the bestselling songs in history, has also made a name for herself around the world by championing the cause of early-childhood development. At the age of 18, she put much of the money she made from her budding music career into starting up the Barefoot Foundation, which has built six schools for poor children displaced by civil war in Colombia. She is also a founder and leader of ALAS (an acronym that stands for Latin America in Solidarity Action), a group that presses governments to help end poverty in Latin America by ensuring that all kids under 6 have access to health care, education, and proper nutrition. Shakira spoke with NEWSWEEK’s Jimmy Langman after she and development economist Jeffrey Sachs lobbied for the cause with Latin American heads of state gathered in Portugal this week at the annual Ibero-American Summit. READ MORE…
Posted: December 11th, 2009 under LA Topics, The Mario Solis-Marich Show.
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