Shakira has teamed up with Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Panama City to launch a child poverty foundation.
In Latin America it is reckoned that at least 350,000 children under five die from causes that are linked to poverty and at least 40 million minors live and work on the street.
It appears, and hopefully so, that the celebrities that will aid Shakira and Marquez's foundation are Spanish singer Miguel Bose (who will serve as executive director) and singers Ricky Martin, Juanes and Alejandro Sanz all of whom plan five concerts in 2007 to raise funds for the child poverty foundation.
Shakira also has a Colombian non-profit foundation entitled 'Pies Descalzos' which was honored last month by her Colombian hometown with a 4.5 meter (14.8 feet) tall, six ton (5,443 kilogram) statue of her.
