Wednesday 28 March 2012

Madonna's promises in Malawi turn sour

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2009 file photo, US pop star Madonna attends the ground breaking ceremony for the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls in Lilongwe, Malawi. In 2009, George Chaponda, the education minister, helped Madonna break ground for a $15 million academy for girls. Early 2012, Madonna's Raising Malawi foundation announced that instead of building the multimillion-dollar academy, it is providing $300,000 to the non-governmental organization buildOn, which has years of experience in Malawi, to develop 10 schools. They'll serve about 1,000 boys and girls in the southern African nation of 15 million that is among the poorest in the world. (AP Photo/file/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)Celebrity promises have turned to disappointment, finger-pointing and lawsuits in Malawi, an impoverished and troubled southern African country where Madonna has drastically scaled back charity efforts.


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