Rabat - Shakira, along with seven other celebrities from the Spanish-speaking world, launched a new philanthropy campaign in partnership with the Juegaterapia Foundation earlier this week to distribute a line of bald dolls to raise money for childhood cancer research.
The Columbian artist tweeted a picture of the doll on Monday and said the whole collection is available for sale on the Spain-based foundation’s website, as well as select toy stores and Amazon.
Shak diseñó este pelón de @juegaterapia para ayudar a los niños enfermos y está en https://t.co/uRsYdUJXiA! ShakHQ pic.twitter.com/6bAQaljtxx
— Shakira (@shakira) May 2, 2016
The foundation provides care to patients in Spain and Morocco, among other countries. The other artists involved in the project include three-time Grammy winner Alejandro Sanz, theatre actress Rossy de Palma and five other big names.
Most of the dolls have been named after the stars participating in the campaign. Each doll wears a different bandana representing the personality of the patient the doll has been designed to replicate.
Shakira’s doll wears a bandera stamped with pink kisses and espouses a face expressing wonder with wide eyes and freckles.
All profits from the sale of the dolls will be donated to the foundation’s work, including efforts to distribute games to hospitals with ill children and transforming the roofs of medical centers into gardens for patients to enjoy.
“The doll helps normalize the situation for sick children, but also make others understand what they suffer,” a spokesperson for the foundation said.
Shakira has participated in several charities in the past, including Children’s Defense Fund, UNICEF, Habitat for Humanity and many others, according to the website Look to the Stars, which tracks celebrity philanthropy.
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