Madonna to Reunite Mercy, David With Their Families in Malawi
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Madonna's Gulfstream jet touched down in the eastern African nation of Malawi on Monday. The pop star's entourage included all four of her kids: Lourdes, 13, Rocco, 9, plus David, 5, and Mercy, 4, both Malawi-born.
Later Monday, the singer and co-founder of charity Raising Malawi, will visit a Millennium Village (low-cost rural villages as coordinated by the United Nations), meeting with noted Third World scholar Professor Jeffrey Sachs.
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But the highlight of Madonna's week-long charity tour will be Tuesday, when she lays the first brick of her $15 million-dollar girls' academy, set to open sometime next year. Accomodating 500 students, the school will focus on the sciences, principal-designate, Anjimile Mtila-Oponyo, tells UsMagazine.com.
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Sources tell Us that Madonna, 51, also plans to reunite David and Mercy with their biological families during a luncheon at the Kumbali Lodge, her usual Malawi headquarters.
"We are very excited," Mercy's uncle Peter Baneti tells Us. "The whole family anxiously awaits her home-coming. We were getting worried when nobody was telling us how Mercy was faring. We will be relieved to see her again."
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"Madonna pledged to be bringing home David and Mercy once in a while," a source adds. "She is making good her vow."
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9By the way, I do know her personally! I think that she is doing a wonderful thing with those children. If you could only see how she is with them. They live a normal life minus the media always chasing Madonna down. SHE IS A GOOD MOTHER! QUIT BEING SUCH A HOLES!
This is directed to Melissa. Mercy's family put her in an orphanage, they did not want her back until Madonna came into the picture. The father was not even around when she was born. Madonna saved that child's life. How would you like to grow up? In Malawi, where she would live in extreme poverty, a society that women are subjugated and where she would have no future. With Madonna, she will be loved and have endless possibilities. If I was little Mercy or David then I'm thinking I would pick Madonna.
I hate Modonna, she made Mercy's family give her up and yes she did, Mercy's family didn't want to but she said she pay there village money and the villagers made the family give her up! And that lovely school she is building came at a cost of a village what was there before which she made get knocked town!
What she's trying to be Angie? Lol since when did ANGIE invented adoption? Because angelina adopted 1st now madonna is just copying her? And Angie isn't about attention? Angelina Jolie craves attention that's why she had 4 photographers with her in her latest trip in Bosnia that were taking her picture instead of the pictures of the people that supposedly she went for. OH AND MEG RYAN (AND OTHERS) ADOPTED WAY EARLIER THAN YOUR MANGIE HER DAUGHTER IS WHAT 12YRS? so it looks ike Mangie is the one copying others
That's very nice!
So happy for David and Mercy. Thanks to Madonna they are going to have every advantage in life. That she takes them back to their place of birth and to see relatives is an added bonus. Way to go Madonna. You are making a difference in those children's lives for the better!!!! Every child should be so blessed.
Wow. I guess you guys must know Madonna personally, huh?
I think it would be difficult for the families to be reunited with their kids only to have to have them takend away again. How do you explain to your chidlren that you have taken them away from their families for a better life? And the families while they are happy their children are living better lives, what about their situation? Still living in a poor state, and barely getting by. Having there kids in clothes that cost more then a year's salary? I thnk this is Madonna's way to want to make herself look good, but I think she is not considering her chidlren's welfare or feelings.
Madonna's a ridiculous copycat of Angelina Jolie. She would have adopted years ago if that was her intention. She's just trying to be Angie, because that brings Angie a lot of attention and that's what Madonna is all about, media attention.