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"       Who: Shakira, Founder, Barefoot Foundation Day Job: Singer. If You Build It: A newly opened hilltop school in Cartagena, Colombia, is a gleaming monument to modern education: a three-and-a-half-acre campus equipped with state-of-the art computers and sports facilities. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know if there are many schools like it in America,&amp;quot; says Shakira, 37, the school&amp;#039;s founder. Many of its 1,700 students are refugees in their own country, who lacked access to clean water, electricity, and, of course, any real prospect of getting out. &amp;quot;In countries like mine, kids who are born poor, die poor\u2014unless people do something about it,&amp;quot; she says.          Extra Credit: The new K\u201312 public school offers all of that free of charge, but what&amp;#039;s amazing is that it&amp;#039;s not unique: It&amp;#039;s one of six opened by Shakira&amp;#039;s Pies Descalzos (&amp;quot;barefoot,&amp;quot; in English) Foundation, which she created at 18 when she made her first million. She has also helped open 25 early-childhood centers, while recruiting an impressive roster of supporters, including billionaires (such as Carlos Slim) and heads of state (including President Barack Obama).  Credo: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not embarrassed to ask for money for education\u2014we cannot see it as a luxury. It is a birthright that belongs to every human being.&amp;quot; Get Involved: fundacionpiesdescalzos.com/en to donate Related: 19 Other Women Who Are Changing the World Photo via Jason Merritt/Getty Images Entertainment "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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