Hilary Duff
Brings Her Charity Work to
Colombia
By Susana Londono
Bogota - Singer-actress Hilary Duff brought
her Blessings in a Backpack program to
Colombia Friday to distribute 3,000
knapsacks of food to poor children in a
school district south of the capital city.
Duff will spend three days visiting children
and participating in a vaccination campaign.
She was greeted by Bogota Mayor Samuel
Moreno, whom Duff said gave her "an amazing
invitation" to bring the program to
Colombia.
"We've been working for four years feeding
children over the weekends," she said. "They
invited us to come here, and we got our
first school in Bogota."
Duff and USA Harvest founder Stan Curtis
started Blessings in a Backpack for children
who get their best meals at school, giving
them backpacks of food every Friday to take
home and share with their families when
they're away from their main source of
nutrition. The program serves 106 schools
and 26,000 children in the U.S. and Canada.
Colombia is the third country to take on the
program, said Duff, 21, who earned fame as
the teenage character Lizzie McGuire in a
Disney series of the same title. She has
appeared more recently in "War, Inc." and
"Material Girls" and recorded several hit
songs and music videos.
Duff said she only has time to visit
Colombia because of work. She is filming six
episodes of the television series "Gossip
Girl," followed by a romantic comedy and a
remake of "Bonnie and Clyde."
When asked if she had a favorite Colombian
singer, she said Shakira, who also does
charity work with children in her home
country.
"I think she's an amazing writer," Duff
said. "She really has a strong idea of what
she wants and she can play a lot of
instruments and that really impresses me." |
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