Shakira to Be Recognized as an 'Agent of Change' at Univision's Premios Juventud (Exclusive)
etonline.comShakira will be recognized as an «Agent of Change» at Univision's Premios Juventud later this month, the organization announced exclusively to ET on Thursday.
The award recognizes the singer's charitable work with children's education, nutrition and the arts. Univision also cited her focus on female empowerment within each cause, and her Fundacion Pies Descalzos (Barefoot Foundation) in Colombia.
The organization works to ensure all Colombian children have access to education. «My dream is to be able to continue growing and make many more schools, get more resources from both the government and the private sector, and that every day more people understand that education is really that 'Agent of Change,'» Shakira told TV presenter Alejandra Espinoza in an interview. «We have also seen it, I have seen it with my own eyes, since we started working with the foundation, we have accompanied children who live in conditions of extreme poverty and conflict and they are children who today are already adolescents, who have graduated and they're in college.
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