Shakira will soon be giving birth to her second child – another son! – with boyfriend Gerard Pique, and they’re using their expanding family for good. She’s once again joining up with UNICEF, this time to launch the World Baby Shower that will benefit underprivileged children around the world.
Here’s the official press release:
Fans can visit the special website and buy one of the ten ‘Inspired Gifts’ that directly contribute to UNICEF. Some of the gifts are midwifery kits with medical equipment, vaccines, blankets, baby scales, soccer balls and storybooks.
The Pique Mebarak family’s first baby shower resulted in the application of over 80,000 vaccines against polio, 4 tons of therapeutic food donated, around 1,000 anti-malaria bed nets purchased and 200,000 oral rehydration salts sachets distributed.
Shakira wrote a post about it on her Facebook, saying that “now that we are about to be parents for the second time, we want to take it one step further: by making baby showers with a philanthropic bent accessible to everyone. Thanks to social media, celebrities are not the only ones who are able to make a real change. Now you can contribute so that baby showers that give to other children become a new global trend.”
Well, that’s pretty great – not only have we not heard much from Shakira since her pregnancy announcement, meaning she’s actually living her life and not trying to suck up as much press as possible. Also, she’s actually doing something useful, that benefits people who need it. Can’t argue with that. Plus, look how cute her little family is!
I’m just so happy he speaks to the kid in Catalan. We (Catalan speakers) tend to switch to Spanish when we marry a Spanish speaker, so I’m glad the kid is learning both languages. Makes sense anyway, growing up in Barcelona you can’t have it any other way but regardless it’s cool they went for the bilingual household solution (very common in Spain, btw).