American Morning
CNN (CNN) National Programming, DMA: 0
07:48AM EDT April 22 2008
Programming Type: Talk News

>>> coming up to 12 minutes before the top of the hour. she's sold 50 million records worldwide. now shakira is giving back, trying to help some of the poorest children in the world to get a good education. >> she sat down with zain verjee, state department correspondent. zain joins us from washington. also, john, zain can dance, okay? she is -- >> kyra, kyra. >> -- one of the most musically inclined seen her moves. >> you're in trouble. >> do tell, zain. >> she showed shakira a few moves. >> she has plenty of fans who love her music and dancing but she's the honorary chair for the campaign for global education. she was in washington to show us a different kind of performance. she's famous for "hips don't lie," but the sexy pop star is here to shake up official washington. her mission, to get the world's poorest children an education. >> 72 million kids are out of the school system. >> reporter: instead of working her fans, she's working world leaders like the british prime minister and the head of the world bank. she's also meeting members of congress. she's a grammy-winning mega star, a sex symbol, so why should we pay attention to her on global education? >> every time you give a child an opportunity, you are transforming his life or her life and giving this child the opportunity to become a productive member of society. >> reporter: shakira travels to disaster zones and founded her hen charity more than ten years ago to educate colombian kids missing out on school. clooney has darfur, angelina has refugees. bono has africa. how does shakira compete for attention? >> in my case i like to think i'm using the spotlight that shines on me or my career and moving it, shifting it to more important issues. >> reporter: she donates millions of her own money for her cause. >> how much money are you looking at? >> this will increase the funds from $465 million that the u.s. is funding in universal education to $3 billion by year 2012. >> reporter: since she's in washington, we asked her which u.s. presidential candidate is best for her cause? >> i am confident that each one of these candidates would recognize the importance of universal education. >> reporter: do you think one of them is stronger on education than the others? >> you're evil. >> reporter: and shakira's meeting today with students from all over the u.s. to raise awareness about having education for all. john, and if you want to see anyone move on the dance floor, you should turn up the music in that studio and see what kyra does. >> this is too much information