David Banda and Madonna

RIO DE JANEIRO – Madonna has raised $11 million from Brazilian millionaires for her Raising Malawi Foundation, the daily Rio O Dia reported Monday. The US pop star, who visited Brazil to stroke the country's wealthy into giving, notably won an ...  

Madonna has raised 11 million dollars from Brazilian millionaires for her Raising Malawi Foundation, the daily Rio O Dia reported on Monday.The US pop star, who visited Brazil to stroke the country's wealthy into giving, notably won an unspecified pledge from the country's richest man, mining magnate Ike Batista, who has an estimated fortune of 7.5 billion dollars.Madonna, 51, was accompanied during her fund-raising by 22-year-old Brazilian...  

LILONGWE, Malawi — Madonna has left Malawi after a nearly weeklong visit with her family, airport and charity officials said Saturday. Officials said Madonna flew out of the southern African country on Friday. The 51-year-old celebrity arrived in the impoverished country on Sunday accompanied by her four children – daughters Lourdes and Mercy, and sons Rocco and David. Mercy and David were adopted from Malawi. While in Malawi, she...  

Madonna and her children, Lourdes Leon, Mercy James and David Banda visit the Mphandu la Orphanage in the Namitete area outside Lilongwe, Malawi. ...read full story  

Madonna has left Malawi after a nearly weeklong visit with her family, airport and charity officials said Saturday. Officials said Madonna flew out of the southern African country on Friday. The 51-year-old celebrity arrived in the impoverished ...  

London, Oct 28 (IANS) Madonna’s adopted daughter Mercy James seems to have forgotten her native language in just four months. According to thesun.co.uk, the 51-year-old adopted Mercy and David Banda from Malawi where Chichewa is the official language. While David remembers a little bit, Mercy has completely forgotten it, revealed Lucy Chipeta of the Mchinji [...]  

Pop star Madonna - along with daughter Lourdes, 13, son Rocco, 9, and her two adopted Malawian children, David and Mercy, both 4 – has arrived in Malawi with so many toys, bouncy castles and rocking horses that amazed onlookers joked their Kumbali Lodge apartment resembled. . . .  

A group of around 140 villagers in Chinkhota village, about 10 miles outside the capital Lilongwe are demanding more money for land the government has leased to Madonna's charity – Raising Malawi – for 99 years. Talks between senior government ...  

Madonna with her adopted son David Banda and daughter Lourdes in Malawi in 2007. Madonna has arrived in Malawi to visit the girls school she is building in the impoverished country, an official for the star's charity said. The 51-year-old celebrity ...  

LILONGWE, Malawi - Airport and charity officials say pop diva Madonna has left Malawi after a visit with her family. Officials said Madonna flew out of the southern African country on Friday. She began a tour of the impoverished country on Oct. 25 ...  

Courtesy Rolling Stone Working out a custody arrangement in the wake of a divorce is difficult, but even more so when parents live on different continents. Madonna notes as much in a recent interview with Rolling Stone, conceding that things are “different” now for sons Rocco, 9, and David Banda, 4 — who split their [...]  

Madonna has been branded a "God" by the Malawi orphanage she adopted son David Banda from. The 'Celebration' singer – who adopted the boy, now four, from the African country in October 2006 when he was 13 months old – visited the centre where he ...  

MPHANDULA, MALAWI — Madonna has promised electricity to a village in Malawi, the impoverished southern African country where she runs a charity organization and from which she has adopted two children. Speaking in Mphandula, some 50 kilometers (30 ...  

Workers at the Home Child Care Centre in Mchinji, Malawi, also spoke highly of the 51-year-old star about the way she has been raising David. The centre's director, Lucy Chipeta, said: "David is too young to understand but for us who remember the ...  

Over the weekend, Madonna visited Malawi with her children. She went to break ground on the girls’ school she’s building through her Raising Malawi Foundation (and plant a tree clad in stilettos), and the estimated cost for the school is probably around $15 million. Now, we know that Madonna doesn’t like to spend [...]