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 30 miles from Malawi's capital, Lilongwe, the singer said Thursday: "I know you work in darkness. I will bring you electricity."
Madonna's Raising Malawi charity already has donated $500,000 for a child care center in the village that feeds and educates 3,000 orphaned children.
Madonna arrived in Malawi on Sunday accompanied by her four children. On Monday she broke ground for her $15-million Raising Malawi Academy for Girls.
About 500,000 children in this nation of 12 million have lost a parent to AIDS.
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More calculated PR crap. "I will bring you electricity." Nevermind Michael Berg (The brains behind this operation), the 20+ other (more efficient) charities involved or the worldwide donors. Madonna herself jumps right in that spotlight and takes the credit even before the work is done and just days before her latest DVD is released. Of course, she knows that the worldwide media will pick up the story and do her bidding. Its much cheaper to promote your 'foundation' with a calculated PR stunt like this one than it is to buy TV/air time worldwide. What an unbelievable load of steaming PR crap.
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