After four fabulous years living and working in the Colombian capital, I´m a great champion of promoting both Bogotá and Colombia to the outside world.
Portrayed in the media across the world as a lawless drug-den, the beauty of both the environment and it´s people is second to none. It is only very recently, that a few tourists have started to discover this exceptional secret.
Now don´t get me wrong, my music tastes as eclectic as they are, don´t stretch to Shakira. The BBC describe her as “Colombia´s biggest legal export.” However she is using her fame and fortune to benefit the socially deprived in Colombia.
As well as founding five schools across the country for poor children in her “Pies Descalzos” project, she sponsors several major charities. She also donated 10,000 pairs of shoes to street children in her home town of Barranquilla. She is also a Good Will Ambassador for UNICEF.
I was fortunate to work for a project to help a school in the Cazuca slum area in South Bogota. Some pictures can be viewed here.
Shakira was rewarded in a special ceremony with President Uribe in tribute to her humanitarian work earlier this week.
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