Madonna Malawi

Is Madonna Failing To Fulfill Her Promise To Bring Education To Malawi?

AP | RAPHAEL TENTHANI | Posted 03.28.2012

BLANTYRE, Malawi -- Celebrity promises have turned to disappointment, finger-pointing and lawsuits in Malawi, an impoverished and troubled southern Af...

Madonna's Charity Set To Break Ground On 10 Schools In Malawi

AP | By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY | Posted 03.30.2012

NEW YORK -- Nearly six years after it was created, Madonna's Raising Malawi charity is set to break ground on the construction of schools in the impov...

Making A Meaningful Impact In Malawi Schools

Ken Wong | Posted 06.06.2011

Ken Wong

Education isn't about how much science or math you know, nor is success about grades, diplomas, or moving on to university. The next best step here in Malawi is for youth to learn to love learning.

Madonna's Malawi School Scrapped; Reports Millions Wasted

nytimes.com | ADAM NAGOURNEY | Posted 05.25.2011

LOS ANGELES -- A high-profile charitable foundation set up to build a school for impoverished girls in Malawi, founded by the singer Madonna and fello...

HuffPost Exclusive: Madonna Makes A Big Announcement

Posted 05.25.2011

Madonna isn't just a pop star -- she runs a massive charity, too. Her Raising Malawi has worked to help children orphaned from AIDS in the poverty-str...

Madonna Malawi Concert Is NOT Happening, Says Org's Web Site

Posted 05.25.2011

Reports of a music festival featuring Madonna in Malawi are false, the performer said on her web site, Raising Malawi. Celebrity gossip blog Perez Hi...

An Open Letter to Madonna: Thank You, Mother to Mother

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011

Cathleen Falsani

Dear Madonna -- Thank you. Earlier this week, after a month-long sojourn in Malawi, my family arrived home in California with our newly-adopted son, Vasco Fitzmaurice Mark David Possley.

Malawi Students Head To School For Promise Of Food

Posted 05.25.2011

In Malawi, about one in nine children die before their fifth birthday. Education is not a high priority -- the search for food is. Many Malawian child...

Madonna, Mercy & Lourdes In Malawi (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Madonna is back in Malawi, where Tuesday she laid the first brick of her Raising Malawi Academy for Girls before starting a week-long charity tour. Mo...

Laying the First Brick at the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls

Madonna | Posted 05.25.2011

Madonna

It is with tremendous joy that I return to Malawi to lay the first brick in the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls. By educating girls we will rebuild this community and raise this nation.

Madonna Responds To Release Of Gay Malawi Couple

Raising Malawi | Madonna | Posted 05.25.2011

In the last week over 30,000 of you added your name to mine calling for the release of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga - the Malawi couple sent...

Madonna SLAMS Malawi For Sentencing Gay Couple

Posted 05.25.2011

Madonna has taken to her website to express outrage over a Malawi court ruling that sentenced two engaged men to 14 years of hard labor because homose...

Madonna's Group Says Land Dispute Story Is Bogus

AP | NEKESA MUMBI MOODY | Posted 05.25.2011

The director of Madonna's Raising Malawi foundation is denying that there is a land dispute over the charity's planned $15 million girls academy, call...

Malawi Villagers Forced To Move For A Madonna School

AP | RAPHAEL TENTHANI | Posted 05.25.2011

BLANTYRE, Malawi — In a land dispute pitting Madonna against African villagers, Malawi's government has sided with the pop star who has pumped m...

Madonna Plants A Tree In Malawi

AP | RAPHAEL TENTHANI | Posted 05.25.2011

LILONGWE, Malawi — Madonna marked the start of construction of her school for girls in Malawi on Monday by planting a tree at the planned site o...

Madonna & Children Return To Malawi To Launch School

AP | RAPHAEL TENTHANI | Posted 05.25.2011

LILONGWE, Malawi — Madonna arrived in Malawi Sunday to visit the girls school she is building in the impoverished country where she adopted two ...

Raising Malawi: Will You Join Me?

Madonna | Posted 05.25.2011

Madonna

I am making a straightforward request. I'm writing to urge you to join me in saving the lives of some of the world's most vulnerable children. And I'm asking you to do it right away.

African Girl's Father Doesn't Want Madonna To Adopt Her

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — The father of an African girl Madonna hopes to adopt says he wants to take care of his daughter himself _ even though he's never met ...

DENIED! Madonna's Malawi Adoption Request Rejected By Court

AP | RAPHAEL TENTHANI | Posted 05.25.2011

LILONGWE, Malawi — Wealthy, famous, fabulous at 50 _ but not a mother of four. Pop star extraordinaire Madonna lost a bid Friday to adopt a seco...

Madonna's African Adoptions Part Of Growing Trend

AP | CELEAN JACOBSON | Posted 05.25.2011

LILONGWE, Malawi — Madonna's efforts to adopt two youngsters from Malawi have put her in the media spotlight. But she isn't alone: a growing num...

Madonna's Adoption: Back Off, Big Mouths, She's Not "Stealing" A Baby!

Bonnie Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011

Bonnie Fuller

So what that she's rich, famous, and still sexy? No one else is knocking down doors to adopt a needy little girl named Mercy. Don't demonize Madonna for wanting to make her, her daughter.

Madonna Tours Impoverished Malawi School In $2800 Chanel Sweatsuit (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

Madonna arrived in Malawi Sunday morning on her Gulfstream V in her bid to adopt a toddler girl named Mercy. After arriving she toured an impoveris...

Madonna: "I Am Because We Are"

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011

Karin Badt

Alerting audiences to the painful problems in Malawi is an exceptionally good thing, but Madonna's new film is weak, largely due to Madonna's over-the-top urge to make this a film of hope.