sábado, 15 de octubre de 2016
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Shakira Mebarak, Colombian singer/songwriter, Grammy-winning artist and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, is also a devoted advocate for education, particularly Early Childhood Development (ECD).
At age 18 she founded the Pies Descalzos Foundation, which presently has six open-door, state-of-the-art schools providing access to quality education for displaced and underprivileged children in her native Colombia. In addition to building projects which ensure that children have safe and well-equipped learning facilities, the Foundation provides nutritious meals; educational enrichment through art, music and recreation; and economic opportunities for families. Currently, the schools serve over 6,000 students and impact more than 30,000 members of the communities at large.
Shakira is also the co-founder of ALAS, a movement that advocates for placing ECD on the political agendas of territories in Latin America and forms private-public partnerships to build ECD centres throughout the continent, with over 35 centres in total throughout Colombia, Argentina and Mexico to date. In 2011, US President Barack Obama appointed her to his Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.
As a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2003, Shakira has expanded her child advocacy efforts on the global level, having gone on field visits to Bangladesh, Azerbaijan and India, leading two global fundraising campaigns to help life-saving supplies reach the world’s most impoverished and at-risk children. Most recently during UN Week in September 2015, she hosted a high-level meeting of advocates and private and public sector representatives to discuss the importance of additional investment in ECD on a global scale.
Since 2015, she has also served as a member of former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s International Commission on Financing Global Education, which seeks to find a worldwide solution and funding to provide universal access to quality education.
At age 18 she founded the Pies Descalzos Foundation, which presently has six open-door, state-of-the-art schools providing access to quality education for displaced and underprivileged children in her native Colombia. In addition to building projects which ensure that children have safe and well-equipped learning facilities, the Foundation provides nutritious meals; educational enrichment through art, music and recreation; and economic opportunities for families. Currently, the schools serve over 6,000 students and impact more than 30,000 members of the communities at large.
Shakira is also the co-founder of ALAS, a movement that advocates for placing ECD on the political agendas of territories in Latin America and forms private-public partnerships to build ECD centres throughout the continent, with over 35 centres in total throughout Colombia, Argentina and Mexico to date. In 2011, US President Barack Obama appointed her to his Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.
As a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2003, Shakira has expanded her child advocacy efforts on the global level, having gone on field visits to Bangladesh, Azerbaijan and India, leading two global fundraising campaigns to help life-saving supplies reach the world’s most impoverished and at-risk children. Most recently during UN Week in September 2015, she hosted a high-level meeting of advocates and private and public sector representatives to discuss the importance of additional investment in ECD on a global scale.
Since 2015, she has also served as a member of former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s International Commission on Financing Global Education, which seeks to find a worldwide solution and funding to provide universal access to quality education.
Familia de Shakira
Gerard Piqué
Son=
Milan Piqué Mebarak
Son=
Sasha Piqué Mebarak
Father=
William Mebarak Chadid
Mother=
Nidia del Carmen Ripoll Torrado
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