Buenos Aires March 5, 2011 - Two years after the "Concert for Children", in which ALAS brought together a large group of artists to create awareness about the importance of health, nutrition and education of children between zero and six years, Shakira returned to the City of Buenos Aires as part of his tour Pop Festival.
As leader of ALAS, whose mission is to mobilize society for the implementation of comprehensive policies aimed at early childhood, has sought to give visibility and support to public policy support early childhood development (ECD) as the Centers for Early Childhood Program (CPI) implemented by the Direction of Civil Society Strengthening at the Ministry of Social Development of the City of Buenos Aires.
In April 2009, the ALAS Foundation and the Ministry of Social Development of the City of Buenos Aires signed an agreement whereby ALAS has given its support for the CPI Program, which aims to ensure growth and healthy development of children in vulnerable through 20 early childhood centers, managed by community organizations that provide daily food assistance, monitoring and health care and education and early stimulation to 1500 young children living in the poorest areas of the city.
Shakira visited, together with the Head of Government of the City, Mauricio Macri and other authorities, one of the centers that are part of the program, to show the results of ALAS' commitment expires and the realization of the announcement made in 2008 through the concerts.
During her visit to the CPI "El Alfarero", located in Villa 21-24, Barracas, Shakira referred to the CPI program as an example of what can be achieved when the public sector, civil society organizations and international agencies are united in a concerted effort to benefit the most vulnerable children and thus help break the cycle of inequality. Shakira reiterated the mission of ALAS, saying "It is our dream ALAS, that policies such as this serve as a model, growing in the rest of the country and the region, to enrich the dialogue and knowledge sharing on experiences for the early childhood in Latin America."
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