Shakira is not only an amazing artist, but also a great humanitarian. Since 1997 she’s helped bring opportunities to low-income children with her Pies Descalzos foundation and now she’s teamed up with another organization to help even more children. Shakira teamed up with the Juegaterapia Foundation to design a bald baby doll called “Baby Pelon,” which is used to raise funds and used as play therapy for cancer patients.
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Since then, the organization continues to collect consoles, tablets, and toys that will help sick children in Spain cope with their illnesses. Many times they see children that need to be hospitalized for long periods of time, as well as others that have treatments that put them in quarantine to prevent infection. This can be a very scary experience and these toys help them connect with the outside world and bring comfort to them when they are lonely.
Play therapy is something that is often used by therapists to help them resolve their problems. Many times children have problems resolving their issues, they misbehave or act out, and this helps mental health practitioners understand them better.
The doll that Shakira designed for Baby Pelon has a white and gray bandana covering the doll’s bald head resembling that of a child that has gone through chemo and lost his/her hair. It also has pictures of lips resembling kisses on the bandana. The toy was created to raise funds and also to show children that lost their hair during treatment that it’s ok to be bald.