Multi-platinum global artist and advocate Shakira, Jordi Cardoner – Vice President of FC Barcelona and its Foundation, and Xavier Bertolin, Educational Director of the “La Caixa” Banking Foundation announced today a project to build the Foundation Pies Descalzos's seventh school in Colombia, as part of a joint partnership with the “la Caixa” Banking Foundation and the FC Barcelona Foundation, who have had a partnership in place for the past eight years to promote innovative education based on personal values and competencies. The Institución Educativa Fundación Pies Descalzos Nuevo Bosque will be built in one of the most conflict-ridden districts in Barranquilla, El Bosque (in 2016, 25.7% of its population lived below the poverty line). The doors of this new educational institution are scheduled to open in two years. The Colombian Ministry of Education and the City of Barranquilla are also indispensable partners in this project presented today, with a contribution of the remaining funds that will be used to build the school.

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