Shakira wants to help others

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Colombian pop superstar Shakira wants to use her voice to help others.

02 May,2011 07:13 am

She said that with fame came an obligation and a greater sense of duty, adding that the best thing she could do with her voice was use it to help others, and to drew focus to more important issues like the right to a quality education.She is working to improve education for children by building schools and community centers in some of the poorest neighborhoods in her native Colombia, and convinced other Latin American leaders to invest in early childhood education. She knows about deprivation all too well having grown up in the extremely poor city of Barranquilla, on the Caribbean side of Colombia.