Why Does Madonna Have a Connection to Malawi?
A Malawi High Court reportedly granted Madonna permission to adopt two more children from the country of Malawi.
Madonna recently denied reports that she wanted to adopt again after she visited Malawi, claiming that her recent trip to the country was for her charity work.
Titus Mvalo, a lawyer for Madonna in Malawi, told Reuters, “Madonna has demonstrated over the years that she has passion for Malawi and her children and therefore the court was satisfied and could not stop the adoption of the twins.”
The singer at the age of 5 lost her mother to breast cancer.
“On my first visit to Malawi, I was devastated to meet child after child who had been orphaned by AIDS. Having lost my mother at such a young age, I felt a close connection to these children. Their stories had touched my own,” she wrote in a blog for the charity.
“In a country of 14 million, a staggering one million children have been left alone with the responsibility of raising each other. I returned home knowing the future of Malawi was resting on the shoulders of these orphaned children, and I had to act.”
Madonna has a special connection to the country, having adopted son David Banda in 2006 and daughter Mercy James from Malawi in 2009. She also has two older children, Lourdes and Rocco, from previous relationships.
In 2006, she established the Raising Malawi charity “to bring an end to the extreme poverty and hardship endured by Malawi’s 2,000,000 orphans and vulnerable children once and for all.”
Interested in a similar story? Prince Harry recently re-created a charity photo that his late mother, Princess Diana, took in 1995.
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