Shakira Shakes it for Education

Shakira recently teamed up with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to call more global awareness to help send poor children to school.  They are working together to help finance the Global Campaign for Education which strives to provide basic education for every child in the world.  Shakira says that "one of the group's goals is to get more help from world leaders in paying for primary education for 72-million children, ages six to 12, who cannot attend school because of poverty."  The group also wants to help some 226 million older children who also miss out on an education.  Shakira will meet with U.S. lawmakers on Capitol Hill to try to persuade them to pass a bill which would increase U.S.  aid for education in developing countries to $3 billion a year by 2012.  Shakira and the Global Campaign for Education hope to break the barriers and increase worldwide education even sponsoring an even which will include five million students from for then 100 countries in the worlds largest simultaneous lesson.  

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