Shakira believes every child deserves a quality basic education and these photos show the singer using her star-power to increase awareness about the Global Education Action Week. This really is a great cause!

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Today, more than 72 million children do not have the opportunity to attend primary school. In addition, 226 million children are denied the opportunity to attend secondary school.

In 1948, the world came together and signed the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, proclaiming that all children have the right to a basic education. In a world where 1.2 billion people live on less than $1 per day, education is perhaps the most powerful instrument for reducing poverty and inequality, improving health and social well-being, and laying the groundwork for sustained economic growth and the realization of basic human rights.