Shakira building a school for homeless kids

I don't know much about Shakira... except for the fact that her hips don't lie.  Plus that girl can DANCE.

Today, I also learned that she'll be donating the proceeds from a concert in her hometown to build an arts school for 1,800 children forced to flee their homes by Colombia's civil war. The school will be located in La Playa, a poor suburb of Barranquilla where 45 percent of the residents are minors, only about half of whom attend school.

I've gone off on this tirade before... but I ask you: How HARD would it be for more celebrities to do something like this?  I mean, why isn't Britney all over creating some new program in post-Katrina New Orleans? It would take her like, what, a 2 day appearance to do it--and she'd get so much good publicity she wouldn't know what to do.  Instead, she hires Matt Lauer to come over, and snaps the gum all night as she boo hoos how hard it is when the press give Kevin a hard time.  Thinking out loud here, Brit:  Get KEVIN to head up your efforts back home, then he'll have something to do beside get cleaned  up from time to time to pose for men's magazine shoots that no one reads anyway.  AND he'd stop making pretty rotten music, improve his image and earn hisself some good karma since he left his pregnant GF for you back in the day.  (LORDY he's got a lot to make up for!)

... I just think more celebs should do more to give back. It would be SO EASY for them, would earn them great public image points, and sadly.. make a difference in a way that people who aren't in their positions can't.   Instead... they just pull in those $15 million dollar checks and do, um... diddly squat most of the time it seems. (ahem.  Sorry!  They're "reading scripts" and always being admitted to local hospitals for "exhuastion".  Right!  Single moms with two jobs deserve to be admitted to the local hospital so THEY can recover from exhuastion... not entertainers who party all night and then have to do some scenes on a closed set with their trailers and the craft services truck nearby.  Sheesh.)

So to wrap up: YAY to Shakira for her efforts.  I hope they're a success and that others follow her example.

Comments

[Ed Benitez]

I totally agree with your comments regarding " hollywood stars and the like". I'm tired of watching senseles stories on short-term marriages, boozers and druggies. Britney, Parris and Ana Nicole are not worthy of adoration but continue to dominate the headlines. I commend you for highlighting the good deeds of Shakira.