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| By Neil Marks in Cartagena, ColombiaWomen leaders of the Caribbean joined Colombian pop star, Shakira, at the AmericasPop star Shakira makes her call for investment in early childhood educationSummit in calling for more programmes in childhood education and teacher training as a way of fighting poverty and increasing wealth.Shakira used her image as Latin America´s leading female pop icon to call on big businesses to get involved in education.“In this room there are people with leadership, resources and intelligence. Why not take advantage of all that to pool resources? There is mounting evidence that education is the best social investment and that investment in those years prior to kindergarten is the best predictor of how you play that child into adulthood,” the singer said at a business summit.Addressing 500 of the most powerful business leaders in the Americas, she called for the building of education centres, funding programmes for children from birth to age six years of age.Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, agreed that the emphasis on education should be at pre-school levels.“Many things are being done and much is being invested in primary and secondary, but start from much earlier, at the pre-school level. This is the challenge facing the region and in this challenge the private sector can do much through partnerships to help us succeed,” she said.She also stated that training of young people must also be on making entrepreneurs out of them.“We are training young people to work and not have to be doers of work, that is, to develop their own projects and get them out later. We must empower them also to be good human beings,” the Prime Minister said.For the Prime Minister of Jamaica,NFL Jerseys China, Portia Simpson-Miller, another key to education development is the education of teachers.“Education is expensive, yes, but look how expensive is ignorance. We must workJamaica´s Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller and Trinidad´s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessartowards a transformation of education, training children, but also teachers, giving more credit to young people to access education and meeting nutrition requirements for children with no limitations and trouble going to school. “ |
