Search Results for 'Children'

Shakira helps children of Brazil

Shakira has helped launch a partnership to promote childhood development in Brazil. The Whenever, Wherever singer is a representative for the ALAS Foundation and met some of the young children at the launch in Rio de Janeiro. Shakira m [...]

Posted On : Oct, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Shakira meets African children to discuss education legacy o...

Ambassador and education activist Shakira met with three girls from different African countries to discuss the state of education in the continent and their own experiences of schooling. The meeting with the girls came as 1GOAL rele [...]

Posted On : Jul, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Santos and Shakira pledge to work for Colombia's children

Colombian President-Elect Juan Manuel Santos and Colombian super star singer Shakira met at the Colombian Ambassador to Great Britain Mauricio Rodriguez's house in London and committed to work for "a Colombia that is educated an [...]

Posted On : Jul, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

World Bank, Shakira join forces to aid young children

The World Bank and Grammy Award-winning singer Shakira teamed up Monday in a 300-million-dollar joint initiative aimed at helping young children in Latin America and the Caribbean. World Bank president Robert Zoellick and the Colombi [...]

Posted On : Feb, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Shakiras Children

Having been born in Colombia, I find Shakira’s campaign to improve access to early-childhood education throughout Latin American countries to be commendable; more so if we consider that she has donated her own money.Local citizens kno [...]

Posted On : Jun, 20 2009 | Comments : 0

Shakira : Shakira back in Colombia to help disadvantaged chi...

Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira has been working hard to make the much-needed arrangement of education for disadvantaged children in her country. Her entourage recently travelled to a school her charity Fondacion Pies Descalzos in the [...]

Posted On : Mar, 14 2009 | Comments : 2

Shakira lends voice to help poor children

Latin singing star Shakira will use her voice to lobby South American governments to help jumpstart a regional project to boost children's health and education. "There are difficult times coming in Latin America. Thousands and thou [...]

Posted On : Oct, 31 2008 | Comments : 0

Shakira Lends A Hand To Children In Latin America

Shakira met with the presidents of Mexico, Argentina, El Salvador, Panama and Paraguay in New York this week to discuss a regional accord to help poor children in Latin America. She was there on behalf of the Panama-based ALAS foundation, w [...]

Posted On : Sep, 27 2008 | Comments : 0

Shakira urges to include children in upcoming Latin American...

Colombian singer Shakira urged Latin American presidents to include the development of children during the next Ibero-American summit to be held in El Salvador. Shakira, together with Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz, attended a discussion [...]

Posted On : Sep, 25 2008 | Comments : 0

Shakira, British PM share praise for helping children

Angelina Jolie. George Clooney. Shakira. Not a red-carpet lineup, but a roll call of celebrities the sometimes dour British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has recruited to add glamour to his appeals to help the developing world. Brown joined [...]