Shakira and her philanthropic work

Hi everyone, 

 

Today, I would like to introduce you the most famous singer from Colombia, Shakira. She has been known by many people around the world for her songs and dance choreographies. She has made rock, pop, and romantic records inspired by an insatiable passion for music that takes in everything from Leonard Cohen (Canada) to AC/DC (Australia), Mercedes Sosa (Argentina) to Alanis Morissette (Canada), The Beatles (England) to Soda Stereo (Argentina). Shakira is a pop star with both a smart brain and a strong social conscience because her parents Nydia Ripoll and William Mebarak taught her the value of the honest work and the service to the society. When she was a teenager, her father took her to a public park located in a poor neighborhood in Barranquilla, Colombia. There were young orphans consuming different kinds of drugs. When she saw the social conditions of the orphans in Colombia, she decided to help orphans and children from poor families in the country. Then, when she was eighteen she founded The Pies Descalzos (Barefoot) Foundation in Colombia. The foundation currently provides education and nutrition to over six thousand impoverished children in my country and is expanding its work to other countries, including newly launched projects in Haiti and South Africa. Shakira has also become a leading advocate for Education and Early Childhood Development. She is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and, in October 2011, President Obama appointed her to the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.

Although Shakira has been a great artist since 1990, she has been an amazing leader in Colombia for twenty years.  

If you want to know more about Pies Descalsos Fundation:

http://www.fundacionpiesdescalzos.com/en/home.html