Catalina Escobar
Catalina Escobar
Activist
The face of social work in Colombia is Shakira, the pop singer whose charity provides education to poor children. But Catalina Escobar has shown that you don’t need to be a platinum-selling artist to shine a light on a pressing social problem.
In the tourist hub of Cartagena, Escobar has been tackling child mortality for more than a decade. Her work is acclaimed for helping to halve child mortality rates within a few years, and it has quickly become one of the highest-profile and most-respected social ...
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