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Portsmouth Christian freshmen Garret Naime stood at the same podium as international pop star Shakira Tuesday afternoon in Washington D.C. for a news conference on global education, and though he didn't get to shake her hand as he had hoped, he called his whirlwind three-day trip to the nation's capital a "great experience."

"I was about 10 feet from her," said Naime, who counts "Hips Don't Lie" as his favorite Shakira tune, and was struck by the singer's short stature: "She was small."

Naime, 15, was one of 50 students from around the country who flew to Washington to participate in the Global Campaign for Education's Action Week. The GCE represents 120 countries and is charged with raising awareness for basic education for the world's youth. There are 72 million elementary school-aged children and another 226 million secondary school-aged adolescents who are currently out of school, according to the organization.

Sorry that there hasn't been much updates, my internet has been terrible that past couple days. But I have managed to add pictures of Shakira attending the Global Education Campaign on April 22nd in Washington DC.

Gobal Education Campaign - Washington DC (4/22/2008) x17

George Clooney. Angelina Jolie. Shakira. Not a red carpet lineup, but a roll call of celebrities the sometimes dour British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has recruited to inject glamour into his appeals to help the developing world.
Brown joined a telephone conference Monday with Shakira, praising the Colombian pop sensation for taking an inspirational role in work to provide a basic education for every child in the world.

The Grammy-winning singer, famed for her hit Hips Don't Lie, is supporting a week of events to highlight the cause of education advocacy group the Global Campaign for Education. She said the group is pressing world leaders to provide funding for primary education for 72 million young children who now miss out on schooling as a result of poverty. The group also aims to generate support for some 226 million older children who miss out on classes because of a lack of access to schools, or because of truancy.

Brown is the world's "No. 1 champion of education," said the group's chairman, Gene Sperling, an ex-White House economic adviser to former President Clinton. Shakira also praised Brown, who as British treasury chief in 2006 pledged $15 billion over 10 years for education in the developing world — the largest offer of aid from a Group of Eight industrialized nation. "He is a man with wonderful intentions, he is very pro-active, he is working very hard for the issue of education," Shakira said, speaking from Washington on a conference call. The 31-year-old singer said she had previously met Brown to discuss aid for education. "I could feel how passionate and enthusiastic he was about it," she said.

"She is inspiring people all over the world," Brown said, returning the singer's praise as he joined the call from London. Brown has made work on meeting the Millennium Development Goals — a set of development standards on education, health, literacy and poverty — a key plank of his foreign policy.
Betraying his often gloomy demeanor, Brown regularly courts celebrities to lend backing to his campaigns. He held talks with George Clooney earlier this month on violence in Darfur, has worked closely with Bono and Bob Geldof on aid for Africa, and chatted with Angelina Jolie in 2006 on education.


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On April 21, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, and Grammy award-winning artist Shakira will participate in a media conference call to discuss the state of global education and out-of-school children in developing countries. This corresponds with the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) Action Week that will take place from April 21-27, 2008. Brown, Zoellick, and Shakira will join with GCE's coalition in 120 countries to call on government leaders to support a basic education for all children, including the 72 million young children and 226 million older youths who are out of school around the world.

Shakira will also appear in Washington, DC on April 22, with Members of Congress as well as students from across the United States to raise awareness for the bipartisan Education for All Act of 2007 (EFA). The purpose of the EFA Act is to "ensure that the U.S. provides the resources and leadership to ensure a successful international effort to provide all children with a quality basic education." It calls for $1 billion for bilateral global basic education investment for FY 2008, scaling up to $3 billion by 2012. The EFA Act requires the President to develop a comprehensive integrated strategy for the United States government to follow in working to reach the 2015 goal of universal access to education for all children.


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