<img title="Shakira" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/sep/23Shakira-1.jpg" alt="Shakira" /> Shakira 
Barcelona: Pop star Shakira has featured in a video where the she talks about taking global action on education.
"Our future generations will surpass our greatest expectations if we give them the tools to do so," footballer Gerard Pique's partner and activist said, in a video for the International Commission on Financing Global Education, an initiative backed by the United Nations.
"They have the talent, the potential and the power to change the world for the better. But we know that their future will be written by how we act today. Education is their birthright, not a luxury," the 39-year-old added.
The UN commission's report calls for national governments to "reform their education systems to maximise learning and efficiency, and to ensure that every child has access to quality education, free from pre-primary to secondary levels, through the progressive and sustained increase of domestic financing."
The increase in finance could amount to over three trillion dollars annually by 2030.
Shakira, whose Pies Descalzos Foundation has helped in building schools in Colombia, is a member of the UN commission. Current and former heads of state, nobel laureates and education experts including Anthony Lake, the Executive Director of UNICEF are driving this initiative too .

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