Posts Tagged ‘unicef’
Salma Wants You to Buy Diapers
12:49 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities · Comments Off
3 Oct 2008Time to add yet another reason to the long list of reasons why I love Salma most of all. She just announced her support of a campaign put together by UNICEF and Pampers to help eradicate tetanus world-wide.
Hayek, spokeswoman for the Pampers/UNICEF campaign against tetanus, went to Sierra Leone last week to take part in an vaccination drive against the disease.
For each specially-marked pack of Pampers diapers sold through year-end, Procter & Gamble has pledged to donate a vaccine. UNICEF hopes to wipe out the scourge, blamed for the deaths of 140,000 babies and 30,000 mothers each year, by 2012.
Now, normal cynical me is rumbling and grumbling about stars and their stupid causes and why doesn’t stupid old Pampers just donate the damn vaccines without all of us having to buy their stupid old diapers?
But hawt and bothered me is oohing and ahhing over my sweet lovely Salmita’s good soul and marveling how much I’d love to hold her crying little self. And Pampers rawks totally.
Yum, yum.
Shakira teams up with Gabo to help kids
8:08 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Celebrities · Comments Off
20 Dec 2006
Colombiana superstar Shakira and legendary author Gabriel Garcia Marquez are teaming up to help stop child poverty in Latin America via a new foundation:
Shakira joined with fellow Colombian and Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Tuesday to launch a star-studded foundation to fight child poverty in Latin America.Backed by the two Colombians and other luminaries of entertainment and finance, the Latin America in Solidarity Action _ whose Spanish acronym is ALAS, or “wings” _ took flight with a promise to tackle poverty that kills 350,000 children each year in the region.
Shakira and Gabo are joined in the efforts by Spanish pop star Miguel Bosé (pictured above with Shakira), who will act as Executive Director, as well as other Latino musicians such as
Ruben Blades, Juanes, Ricky Martin, the rock group Mana, Aleks Syntek, David Bisbal and Alejandro Sanz.
As we’ve posted before, Shakira is also an ambassador for UNICEF and heads up her own foundation to help children, Pies Descalzos.
Via / Washington Post
Shakira meets Bachelet to discuss child labor
1:27 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Celebrities| Chile| Latin America| children · Comments Off
1 Dec 2006
Shakira was in Santiago de Chile last week to meet with President Michelle Bachelet to discuss child labor in her country as well as in the rest of Latin America. Shakira has made this issue her own in her role as ambassador for UNICEF, as well as being a UN children’s ambassador and the head of Pies Descalzos, her own non-profit organization:
Shakira, who was in Chile to do two concerts, was received by Bachelet in the governmental palace, La Moneda, where the two talked about the protection that all children need.Long before the singer arrived at the palace, outside 300 people congregated and didn’t seem to mind the harsh sun or the temperature which was way above 30 degrees Celcius (86 degrees Fahrenheit).
After meeting with President Bachelet for about half an hour, Shakira made a plea to Chilean parents:
I ask that all Chilean parents send their children to school, that they protect them from vulnerable situations, from child labor and that we all start thinking more about children.”
Via / TheDay.com
Image via Santiago Times
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