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Though Madonna was spotted at an orphanage in the African country of Malawi, don't expect to see any Angelina Jolie shenanigans - she's not planning on taking a child home with her.
While rumors spread saying Madge was going to adopt a boy from the country, her publicist tells US Weekly, "I can confirm Madonna is in Malawi on a private visit. She is building an orphanage and child care center and is involved in other initiatives geared toward helping children orphaned by AIDS through the Raising Malawi organization. She has not adopted a baby despite reports that she has."
Surrounded by bodyguards, the Queen of Pop handed out translated copies of her book "English Rose" to the orphans at the Children's Village.
Madonna plans to set up a Kabbalah-based orphan care center in the country to provide food, education and shelter for up to 4000 children.
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I don't see Madonna adopting. Angelina has a big heart, she loves all children.
really...and building an opahnage, providing schools...those don't come from Madonna's heart????
more so-called celebs should be as genorous as Angelina and Madonna....I feel they both do good w/ their money unlike most celebs.....
I mean I just read how Paris bought 32 dresses at onetime the other day...that is ridiculous...does she have anything else to do???
#1 tHESE PEOPLE HAVE THE MONEY TO GET A KID AND HAVE 20 OF THEIR OWN, ON TOP OF THAT THEY CAN AFFORD IT, THEY HAVE 50 MILLION BABYSITTERS ON STAND BY, LOOK AT TOMKAT FOR EX.
WOW
Madonna is getting criticized for building an orphanage and child care centers for children whose entire family has been lost to AIDS---something most of us have never gone through....
I I think it is wonderful what she is doing
OH, no ulterior motive here. The only criteria for each child to be helped is he or she be indoctrinated into Esther's bullsh*t cult. She goes to Malawi, a country suffering from an epidemic of dysentery, and hands out copies of her book. How about handing out water filtration pumps or clothes for that matter. She's getting critisized because her "generosity" comes with major strings attached and, as usual, they're self serving. She's wants to propagate Kaballah. She's just a latter day white missionary come to save the savages. And by the way, she's there to help raise money, not give it. I guess things must be really tough in the Ritchie household. She couldn't possibly afford to give the 3mil herself right?
whoa o-bitch!
I didn't know all those facts! wow ! you are right, Madonna is a horrible person!
Madonna is nothing more than an aging pop star who can't stand the fact that she is no longer relevant. The only reason she even went to Africa is because she is seeking to gain some publicity for her "concern" for starving children. Yeah right.
She has donated millions upon millions to the ridiculous Kaballah cult; what she has donated to AIDS charities, etc.. pales in comparison. Sorry Madonna, you're no Angelina. Instead of adopting a trophy baby put your millions where you're mouth is.
It's nice to see we have all matured so much since the last "Madonna and Child" article. Wait, that didn't happen.
If everything you said is true, b*tch, I can see where SOME of this hostility is coming from. However, I would like to point out that regardless of what she can afford, it is still up to her and any other celebrity how much they donate and to where. I am not exactly destitute, yet I bought myself a pair of shoes for $100. I could have bought them for $15 at Payless and donated the other $85 to charity. But I didn't, and for that reason, I don't expect anyone else to either. Can all of you character judges say the same thing? (I'm not trying to isolate anyone, but I honestly think this is a valid point.)
On that same line, when I do donate my time or money to charities, my preference is almost always towards Animal Shelters and Humane Socities. Does this make me a bad person? Anymore than it makes Madonna a bad person to donate her money to a Kaballah (sp?) church if that is her choice? If this were true, we would have to say every person who puts money into a collection basket at church on Sundays is in some sense a self-serving person who is failing to make a proper contribution to society. Similarly, we should feel open to criticize every person who drops change in a collection jar to save an individual MS kid at a grocery store (for example). After all, why didn't they donate more? Chances are they could give more than fifty cents, and why didn't they give that money to a foundation with a broader audience?
This has gone on long enough, but I really think A LOT of you need to stop to examine your own efforts before criticizing someone elses. Right now, I don't know that any of us are even trying to "help" raise 3 million dollars for an African village, which means her efforts are still better than mine.
WHEN VERY WEALTHY AMERICAN STARS ADOPT AMERICAN ORPHANS, IT'S A WONDERFUL, COMPASSIONATE ACT.
WHEN THEY RUSH OFF TO AFRICA TO ADOPT, IT'S A
DREADFUL PUBLICITY STUNT.
YES, AFRICAN ORPHANS SHOULD--MUST--BE ADOPED.
BUT BY PEOPLE WITHIN THEIR OWN CULTURE.
MOREOVER, THE OLD ADAGE ABOUT CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME SHOULD KICK IN HERE.
ANGELINA AND MADONNA AND AL THE REST OF THOSE SLUTS WHO ARE TURNING AFRICA AND ASIA INTO SHOPPING MALLS FOR SAD LITTLE ORPHANS ARE SICKENING.
I PITY THE POOR CHILDREN THESE PIECES OF TRASH ADOPT AND TAKE TO RAISE IN AN ALIEN CULTURE.
PEOPLE WHO PLAY THAT GAME WHICH ANGELINA HAS DOWN PAT, AND MADONNA IS BENT UPON EMULATING, SHOULD BE IGNORED BY PRESS AND PUBLIC ALIKE.
PURE GARBAGE.
THE MAVEN HAS SPOKEN
Madonna is nothing but an old hag that has to try to get attention look at me, look at me i'm an old lady trying to be like that other dumb bitch that has to get attention by adopting a foreign baby, um madonna has to get over herself already and worry about her own kids that have different dads.
