Shakira To Build School In Haiti
Monday, April 12, 2010 at 12:29 pm
Colombian pop star Shakira met child survivors of Haiti’s earthquake as her charity prepares to build a school in the disaster-stricken Caribbean country.
The singer, who has already joined Hollywood actors and other global celebrities to raise funds for the victims of the January 12 earthquake, flew into the wrecked Haitian capital Port-au-Prince in a private jet.
At the planned site of her Barefoot Haiti school, she met about 100 children, some of whom danced to her songs. She then toured a camp housing nearly 50,000 people on a golf course. There, she met US actor Sean Penn, whose own charity is also helping victims.
The Haitian school would be built and run with other non-governmental organisations.
Shakira said providing education to Haitian children would be a key part of the reconstruction of the quake-shattered country, which even before the disaster was already the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere.
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