Shakira tours Haiti,prepares for charitable school

Shortly after the disaster,Shakira announced plans to team her Barefoot Foundation with the Architecture for Humanity charity to build a school in the region,which she hopes will mirror the success of an education facility she launched in her native Colombia.

The institute will provide teaching,nutrition and counselling for kids in need.

“We’ve come to make all the preparations to be able to start the building of a Barefoot school here in Haiti. We think we can employ what we’ve learned (in Colombia) here,apply it in this country which needs it so much at the moment,” Shakira said.

“We need to think about the future of this country and of how Haiti’s children can be useful to their societies tomorrow… Education is one of the fundamental tools with which to develop and rebuild Haiti,” she added.

The earthquake killed over 300,000 people and left more than a million homeless.