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Good news to all Malawians


Now Madonna wants to adopt an African child



By Felix Mponda

BLANTYRE - Pop diva Madonna has arrived in Malawi to inspect a
five-million-dollar project she has funded to support the poor African
country's growing number of AIDS orphans and possibly adopt an African
child.

"Madonna arrived on a private visit to see for herself various
programmes on the ground she is funding to do with under-privileged
children," said Andrina Mchiela, principal secretary in the ministry of
women and gender.

Mchiela said the US singer and actress was welcomed by senior government
officials on her arrival in a private jet in the administrative capital,
Lilongwe.

"She is insisting that her visit to Malawi be very private... She does
not want to draw attention to herself but to focus on the programmes she
is funding that will alleviate thousands of under-privileged children
and orphans," she said.

Madonna, who has two children of her own, has pumped five million
dollars into various programmes for poor children, including the
construction of an orphanage centre in Mchinji, 115 kilometres east of
Lilongwe.

Malawi has two million vulnerable children and nearly 1.5 million of
them are orphans whose parents have died of Aids, Mchiela said.

"The orphanage problem has reached a crisis point in Malawi, as
evidenced by those loitering around the streets.

"A lot of children are not going to school. Many households are being
headed by orphans because the parents are gone," Mchiela said.

She said there were tentative plans for Madonna to adopt one or two
orphans to "give them a better life and education".

"She is interested in children and she wants to go and change their
nappies," Mchiela said.

In an interview with Time magazine in August, the former 'Material
Girl', who has reinvented her public image several times, explained her
new socially conscious persona.

"Now that I have children and now that I have what I consider to be a
better perspective on life, I have felt responsible for the children of
the world," Madonna explained.

"I've been doing bits and bobs about it and I suppose I was looking for
a big, big project I could sink my teeth into," she said, referring to
the project in Malawi.

She said a care centre for orphans in Malawi would "be like a day camp
for orphans, who often have relatives who will give them a place to
sleep but cannot feed them".

Madonna, a convert to Kabbalah or the study of Jewish mysticism, said
her new faith had given her a fresh perspective on life.

"One of the main precepts of Kabbalah is that we?re put on this earth to
help people. And your job is to figure out how you can help and what it
is that you can do."

Aids, which afflicts 14.4% of the country?s 12 million people, has cut
life expectancy in Malawi to 36.

About 900,000 Malawians are living with HIV/Aids and some 70,000 adults
here die of the disease every year.

Sapa-AFP

2006/10/05 06:15:26


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 I think any publicity is good publicity... but on another note we are all Malawians in the forum, please can we do our best not to say Madonna is adopting a generic "african" child. She is adopting or allegedly adopting a " Malawian" child. The child has a country of origin and is not the sam e as an ethipoian or South African etc... pls, hers a shout out to the future Chimwemwe Ciccone or Ulemu Ritchie ...

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