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A Note to Bill Gates, Oprah, Madonna: size isn't everything!

Richard Walden | Posted 11.03.2009 | Impact

Read More: Brangelina, Philanthropy, Malawi, Oprah, Grameen Bank, Social Venture Capitalists, Madonna, Pierre Omidyar, Bill Gates, Muhammad Yunus, Bono, Impact News
Richard Walden

I appreciate the Gates family's, Oprah's, and Madonna's philanthropic work, but they're missing a huge world full of local talent, new ideas and smaller-scale projects crying out for funding.

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Madonna Leaves Malawi After A Week

AP | Posted 10.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Malawi, Madonna, Entertainment News

LILONGWE, Malawi — Madonna has left Malawi after a nearly weeklong visit with her family, airport and charity officials said Saturday. Official...

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Raising Malawi: Will You Join Me?

Madonna | Posted 10.28.2009 | Impact

Read More: Madonna, Malawi, Raising Malawi, Raising Malawi Academy for Girls, Madonna Malawi, Madonna and October 28, Madonna Raising Malawi, Impact News
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.

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ABC News Features Video Success Story of Save the Children's Kangaroo Mother Care Program in Malawi

Save the Children | Save the Children | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home

Read More: Malawi, Home News

ABC News World News Tonight with Charles Gibson covers global health and the Gates Foundation Living Proof Project. Their website showcases video of S...

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Madonna Plants A Tree In Malawi

AP | RAPHAEL TENTHANI | Posted 10.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Madonna Malawi, Madonna, Malawi, Entertainment News

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...

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Madonna plants tree to launch Malawi girls school

AP | RAPHAEL TENTHANI | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Lilongwe- Malawi-Malawi, Malawi, Home News

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 of the $15 million school.

The 51-year-old celebrity arrived in the impoverished southern African country on Sunday accompanied by her four children – daughters Lourdes and Mercy, and sons Rocco and David.

Madonna adopted Mercy from Malawi earlier this year and adopted David from the country in 2008.

The singer was dressed in a dark summer dress and a colorful shawl during Monday's ceremony in the town of Chinkhota, some six miles (10 kilometers) from the capital, Lilongwe. Together with eldest daughter Lourdes she planted a Moringa tree, a hardy tree with edible leaves.

"If this school is a success – with God-willing it will be – we will replicate it not only in Malawi but in other parts of the world as well," she said.

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Madonna & Children Return To Malawi To Launch School

AP | RAPHAEL TENTHANI | Posted 10.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Madonna, Madonna Malawi, Malawi, Entertainment News

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

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Lessons In Falling: Growing Up In Malawi Prison

Mia Kirshner | Posted 10.16.2009 | Impact

Read More: Kachere, Legal Rights, Malaria, Community, Malawi, Education, Permaculture, I Live Here, Juvenile Prison, Impact News
Mia Kirshner

I Live Here has found its voice through what I have learned in Malawi. We found our voice through mistakes, which I am sure we will continue to make and hopefully learn from.

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William Kamkwamba Helps African Poverty With A Homemade Windmill (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

Read More: Malawi, Video, Daily Show, William-Kamkwamba, Afghanistan, Africa, Jon Stewert, William Kamkwamba, Wind Mill, William Kamkwamba Windmill Africa, Windmill, William Kamkwamba Read More At: Http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/08/William-Kamkwamba-Helps-a_n_314003.Html, Daily Show Windmill, Windmill Africa, Windmill Daily Show, Windmill African, William Kamkwamba Windmill, John Stewart Windmill, Kamkwamba, African Windmill, Http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/08/William-Kamkwamba-Helps-a_n_314003.Html, Site:www.huffingtonpost.com 2009 William Kamkwamba Helps, William Kamkwamba Daily Show, Africa Homemade Windmill, World News

William Kamkwamba, a Malawian high school student and inventor, talks to Jon Stewart about how he built a windmill by looking at pictures in a book. ...

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Planting Trees and Moving Windmills in Malawi

William Kamkwamba | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Bryan Mealer, Energy Deforestation, Solar Energy, William Kamkwamba, Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Malawi, Green News
William Kamkwamba

My grandpa tells me how thick forests once covered our entire country, so dense and dark that a man could lose his sense of time and direction in them. Those forests have now been reduced by more than 80 percent.

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Lies, Damned Lies -- and the DoubleSpeak I Would Erase From the English Language

Johann Hari | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: 1984, Pentagon, Malawi, Afghanistan, Doublespeak, Vietnam War, Christian, Collateral Damage, George Orwell, Fertilizer, Jewish, Climate Change, Elizabeth, New Labor, Muslim, Richard Dawkins, Queen Elizabeth, Infant Mortality, Global Warming, World News
Johann Hari

The English language needs a spring cleaning to purge phrases that, while posing as neutral descriptions of the world, contain a hidden political agenda that then molds the assumptions of the listener.

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I Live Here: My Story

Mia Kirshner | Posted 09.22.2009 | World

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Cholera, Mia Kirshner, Malawi, James MacKinnon, Africa, World News
Mia Kirshner

I traveled to Malawi in 2005 to collect material for a chapter of I Live Here, an anthology about vanishing communities around the world. Tragically, the situation has deteriorated further since then.

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Please Madonna, End the Gun Show

Sheila Marikar | Posted 08.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Malawi, Exercise, Plastic Surgery, Madonna, Fat, Weight Loss, Kabbalah, Diet, Botox, Hollywood, Celebrities, Entertainment News
Sheila Marikar

To many women in Hollywood abide by the ridiculous regimen of few hours of cardio here, one hour of lifting there, then a trip to the clinic to get lasered down and Botoxed up.

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Malawi judge allows Madonna to adopt second African child

The Independent | Independent | Posted 07.13.2009 | Home

Read More: New York-New York, Malawi, Home News

Madonna has succeeded in her bid to adopt a second African child after Malawi's Supreme Court told a provincial judge that she had listened too much ...

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MERCY! Malawi Approves Madonna's Adoption

AP | RAPHAEL TENTHANI | Posted 07.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Madonna Adoption, Madonna, Celebrity Kids, Malawi, Entertainment News

BLANTYRE, Malawi — There's mercy for Madonna _ Malawi's highest court ruled Friday that the pop star can adopt a second child from the African n...

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Madonna's Malawi Adoption Ruling Coming Friday

AP | Posted 07.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Madonna Adoption, Madonna, Celebrity Kids, Malawi, Entertainment News

BLANTYRE, Malawi — Malawi's highest court plans to announce Friday whether Madonna can adopt a second child from the impoverished southern Afric...

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Madonna, Africa and Child Mortality

Jim Luce | Posted 06.15.2009 | World

Read More: Hiv, United Nations, Malaria, Thought Leaders, Tb, Global Citizens, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Raising Malawi, Jim Luce, U.N. Millennium Development Goals, Respiratory Illness, Earth Institute, African Children, Infant Mortality, Africa, Madonna, Parasites, Malawi, Public Health, Mathew Luce, Parenting, Jeffry Sachs, Haiti, David Banda, Columbia University, Diarrhea, Mercy, Millennium Villages, N.Y.U. Medical School, Orphans International Worldwide, Dried Mopane Worms, World News
Jim Luce

The deaths of African children are all about food, water and cooking stoves. There is usually no public health system in place to address this tragic litany of otherwise very approachable issues.

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Is Aid Really "Dead"?

Carol Peasley | Posted 05.22.2009 | World

Read More: Dead Aid, Women, Global Health, Women's Issues, Foreign Affairs, International Relations, Global Poverty, Dambisa Moyo, Foreign Policy, Malawi, World News
Carol Peasley

Calling aid "dead" may sell books, but it does little to further the real debate. Too much is at stake for oversimplification. It's really her premise that should be dead on arrival.

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Madonna Makes Adoption Plea To Malawi Newspaper

AP | Posted 05.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Madonna Adoption, Madonna, Mercy James, Malawi, Entertainment News

BLANTYRE, Malawi — Madonna has told a newspaper in Malawi that she still wants to adopt a girl from the poor African nation despite legal obstac...

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Madonna, Mercy and Malawi

Jim Luce | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

Read More: Adopted Children, Dr. Jane Aronson, The Orphan Doctor, Adoption, Raising Malawi, Madonna, Unicef, Jim Luce, Malawi, Mphandula Childcare Center, Family Care, Save the Children, Orphans International Worldwide, Worldwide Orphans Foundation, World News
Jim Luce

Jane and I love our adopted children more than anything else in the world. We would both rather have them raised by Madonna than grow up where we found them.

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Madonna Tot's Dad Allegedly Found: 'At Last I Can Be Part Of Mercy's Life'

Mail Online | Posted 05.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Madonna, Madonna Adoption, James Kambewa, Mercy James, Malawi, Entertainment News

This is the first picture of Mercy's father, after he was tracked down yesterday by The Mail on Sunday . . . and said he was looking forward to being ...

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Madonna Jets Out Of Malawi Without Adopting Mercy

AP | RAPHAEL TENTHANI | Posted 05.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Madonna Adoption, Madonna, Celebrity Kids, Malawi, Entertainment News

LILONGWE, Malawi — Madonna left Malawi on her private jet Sunday after being rebuffed in an attempt to adopt a second child from the poor Africa...

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Playa Hatin' on Madonna

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Malawi High Court, Adoptions, Malawi, African Orphans, Sex, Africa, Madonna, Celebrity Dislike, Celebrity, Mercy James, Entertainment News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Let's cut the bull. The issue is not Mercy James, the four year old Malawian orphan girl who Madonna wants to adopt. The issue is Madonna.

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Guy Ritchie "Saddened" By Madonna Adoption Failure

People | Posted 05.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Guy Ritchie, Madonna Adoption, Madonna, Mercy James, Malawi, Entertainment News

British director Guy Richie called his ex-wife Madonna "a great mum" following news that the singer's bid to adopt a second child from Malawi was reje...

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Madonna and the Cult of Celebrity Adoption

Diane Francis | Posted 05.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Narcissism, Madonna, Dysfunction, Adoption, Malawi, Celebrity Adoption, Entertainment News
Diane Francis

For the money Madonna would spend every year providing 24-hour nannies to raise a child, and lavishing it with private schools and the like, she could feed a village or a large orphanage for 20 years.

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