Is Madonna Failing To Fulfill Her Promise To Bring Education To Malawi?
BLANTYRE, Malawi -- Celebrity promises have turned to disappointment, finger-pointing and lawsuits in Malawi, an impoverished and troubled southern Af...
BLANTYRE, Malawi -- Celebrity promises have turned to disappointment, finger-pointing and lawsuits in Malawi, an impoverished and troubled southern Af...
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...
Ken Wong | Posted 06.06.2011
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.
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...
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...
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...
Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
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...
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...
Madonna | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Madonna | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
Bonnie Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
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...
Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
AP | RAPHAEL TENTHANI | Posted 03.28.2012