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    Madonna and her four children have visited the orphanage that kept one of her sons before his 2008 adoption from the impoverished southern African country.

    Home of Hope Child Care Center director Lucy Chipeta says she showed Madonna and her son David his crib during their Tuesday visit to the orphanage near the Zambian border. Siblings Lourdes, Rocco and Mercy — who was adopted from Malawi earlier this year — joined their mother on the tour of the orphanage, where Madonna's Raising Malawi charity has built several new buildings.

    Madonna and her children arrived in Malawi on Sunday. On Monday she broke ground at her charity's new school for girls.

    About 500,000 children in this nation of 12 million have lost a parent to AIDS.

    AP

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    Madonna has promised electricity to a village in Malawi, the impoverished southern African country where she runs a charity organization and from which she has adopted two children.
    Speaking in Mphandula, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, the singer said Thursday: “I know you work in darkness. I will bring you electricity.”
    Madonna’s Raising Malawi charity already has donated $500,000 for a child care center in the village that feeds and educates 3,000 orphaned children.
    Madonna arrived in Malawi on Sunday accompanied by her four children. On Monday she broke ground for her $15-million Raising Malawi Academy for Girls.
    source: ap
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    American pop queen Madonna broke ground Monday on a girls academy she is building in Malawi, billed as a "gift" to the country from where she has adopted two children.
    "After seeing all the hard working Malawian women who are looking after families and communities, I realised how much they deserve to be educated," said Madonna.
    The 51-year-old star cut a cake, planted a tree and turned the sod alongside her eldest daughter Lourdes, 13, at a colourful ceremony attended by about 1,000 locals on the outskirts of Malawi's administrative capital Lilongwe.
    "The school will help girls from vulnerable backgrounds to move forward. They will use the principles of spirituality for kids," said the singer who is a devotee of Jewish Kabbalah mysticism.
    According to a brochure for the Raising Malawi Girls Academy, the school will be a "leadership institution to prepare future women leaders" with 500 boarders including two impoverished girls from each of the country's 28 districts.
    It will "focus on mathematics and science which traditionally have failed in Malawi and elsewhere", the brochure said, saying that the school would be a gift to the people of Malawi.
    "The logical project was to build a school that will create future women leaders, doctors and surgeons," Madonna said.
    The singer was entertained by traditional dancers and musicians, in a event attended by senior education officials and community leaders.
    Malawi's minister of education, George Chiponda, presented the singer with the national flag and urged her to continue supporting the country's education system.
    "When you have money I want you to come back and build us a university," said Chiponda.
    "This year 5,000 students qualified for university entry but only 1,200 were admitted due to lack of space," said Chiponda.
    The school is modelled on a similar academy built by US television talk show host Oprah Winfrey in South Africa.
    In 2006, the chart-topping musician adopted a baby boy, David Banda, who is now three-years-old.
    In April, the recently divorced singer and actress came back into the country to file for the adoption of Mercy James, who was placed at an orphanage following the death of her mother.
    The adoption of three-year-old Mercy was initially denied but later granted after an appeal.
    Madonna is also funding several charities in the small southern African country, including homes for children with AIDS.
    She has already built a multi-purpose community centre at Mphandula village, 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Lilongwe, which looks after more than 8,000 orphans from scores of villages in the area.
    Malawi is one of the world's poorest nations, with more than half of the population of 12 million living on less than one dollar a day. The singer has a personal fortune estimated at several hundred million dollars.
    Construction of the academy will take two years. (source: AFP via Yahoo)
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    Madonna is in Malawi

    By asimina,

    Madonna arrived in Malawi Sunday to visit the girls school she is building in the impoverished country where she adopted two children, an official for the star's charity said.

    The official who could not be named because he was not authorized to speak on the matter said Madonna arrived at about 2:30 p.m. (1230 GMT; 8:30 a.m. EDT) on Ethiopian Airlines.

    The 51-year-old celebrity was accompanied by her four children — Lourdes, 13, Rocco, 9, as well as her two adopted children. Madonna adopted the Malawian-born Mercy, 3, this year and David, 4, in 2008.

    The official said Madonna would take part in a groundbreaking ceremony for the school on Monday.

    Associated Press
  21. asimina
    From RaisingMalawi.com
    My family and I are on our way to Malawi to attend the ground breaking ceremony for Raising Malawi Academy for Girls. The ceremony will take place on Monday, October 26 at 3:00 p.m. on the future site of the Academy.

    Our vision for the school is to empower girls to become Malawi's future leaders. Our goal is to teach them to challenge themselves, serve their local communities and develop their country. We created this vision in partnership with the local Malawian Ministry of Education, and other educational experts from Malawi, Sub-Sharan African and elsewhere around the world.

    We are developing and using innovative educational approaches, cutting-edge architectural design methods, and other modern technologies, which we hope, will become a replicable model for girls secondary school education.

    Research proves that young girls throughout the developing world are often left without opportunities to receive a comprehensive education and the benefits that education can provide.

    It’s an honor for me to be able to help as many of these girls as I can achieve their dreams.

    I’m also incredibly proud of all the projects Raising Malawi is involved in and I look forward to visiting a number of them during my visit.
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    The Queen of Pop is gearing up to direct her second film – this time about the woman who never would be queen – Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor.

    "It's still in the early stages," Madonna's publicist, Liz Rosenberg tells PEOPLE about the movie, which will chronicle how King Edward VIII turned in his crown in 1936 to marry the twice-married American socialite.

    The screenplay, which Madonna, 51, wrote, "is about two intermingling love stories – one with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and the other one a modern day love story," says Rosenberg.

    Reports that it will be a musical like Madonna's 1996 film, Evita aren’t completely true, says Rosenberg. "It's not a musical but will likely have a musical component,” she says.

    Madonna, who made her directorial debut in 2008 with Filth and Wisdom, is excited about bringing one of the greatest love stories to the silver screen, says Rosenberg. "She did a lot of research on the Duke and Duchess of Windsor," she says.

    People.com
  23. asimina
    Media Traffic United World Album Chart – week 43 / 2009 – October 31
    1. (2) Michael Bublé – Crazy Love – Reprise – 275.000
    2. (1) Madonna – Celebration – Warner Bros. – 118.000 (Total Sales: 802k)
    3. (-) OST – The Twilight Saga: New Moon – Chop Shop / Atlantic – 115.000
    4. (14) Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D. – Interscope – 88.000
    5. (4) Barbra Streisand – Love Is The Answer – Columbia – 87.000
    6. (7) Jay-Z – Blueprint 3 – Roc Nation / Live Nation – 86.000
    7. (-) Aqua Timez – The Best Of Aqua Timez – Sony Music – 83.000
    8. (11) Muse – The Resistance – Helium 3 / Warner Bros. – 77.000
    9. (-) Shakira – She Wolf / Loba – Epic – 65.000
    10. (8) Mariah Carey – Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel – Island – 63.000
    Billboard Hot 200 US Albums – Week of October 31, 2009
    …
    37. (37) Hannah Montana: The Movie – Soundtrack
    38. (20) Celebration – Madonna – 14.500 (Total Sales: 113k)
    39. (40) Ready – Trey Songz
    …
    Billboard European Albums – Week of October 31, 2009
    1. (1) Celebration – Madonna
    2. (-) Shakira – She Wolf
    3. (-) In This Light And On This Ev… – Editors
    4. (3) The Resistance – Muse
    5. (-) Alles Kann Besser Werden – Xavier Naidoo
    6. (8) Get Lucky – Mark Knopfler
    7. (-) So Wie Ich Bin – Helene Fischer
    8. (2) Humanoid – Tokio Hotel
    9. (6) The Boy Who Knew Too Much – Mika
    10. (4) Love Is The Answer – Barbra Streisand
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