Madonna
entertainment with its open, daring to do to send for decades in the circle will survive and pop music has been called the However, the Queen to play in charity Madonna promised ho throw 2009 $ 15,000,000 to establish schools for girls in Malawi, however, sign the land, laying the foundation, has recently announced that Madonna does not build schools for girls, and adding to the funds used to establish another 30 schools. However, local people have questioned Malawi, said the project was built schools for girls as early as October 2009 to hold a groundbreaking ceremony, but the whole project has been started, and now Madonna suddenly changed their mind, the so-called 30 schools will not Again it was a bad check? Topics have written / reporter Xiajiang Yi
high-profile commitment to
spent 15 million U.S. dollars building schools for girls
following adopted two children in Malawi after Madonna announced in April 2009 donated 15 million U.S. dollars, build a modern woman in horse-drawn school maintenance. Madonna was announced under the plan, the campus is located in the outskirts of Malawi capital, Lilongwe, is expected to be completed within two years. Covering an area of 46 hectares, including libraries, office buildings, teachers, student cafeteria, gymnasium, health center, a number of outdoor stadiums, 30 classrooms, 12 teachers, student apartments and 18 apartments. According to plan, the school will only admit girls, is to In October 2009 the foundation stone laying ceremony was held, Madonna personally cut the ribbon and planted trees, officially launched the construction of schools for girls.
sudden volte-face
local villagers that cheated
After the ceremony, the school has not started. British Land acquisition and relocation of schools for girls have been wasted on this. To build girls school in Malawi a number of villages in a total of more than 200 local villagers into So far, only to relocate villagers Madonna 50 million in cash compensation, the villagers according to their size of their houses, farmland size of collection, even if the money sent to the villagers to hand in full, with an average of about $ 2,000 per person, but also the villagers that received too little compensation. The local government threatened the villagers, if not cooperate will be sent to prison, saying the land in the next 99 years belong to Madonna. Therefore, many people are almost Now the school is not built, causing a local uproar. Many villagers have been selling land was very disappointed that Madonna was cheated, have demanded the return of land.
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she was obliged to give a statement
for Madonna to change your mind a big headache for the local government, declared that The new plan did not know, she obliged to give the villagers a say. Lika Malawi education minister Musa said, know nothing.
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Madonna: like to do more and better
for the change of plan, Madonna explained: only 33% of girls entering secondary school, girls school construction program can not change the situation of most children. Now, I want to do more and better and more effective in helping children in Malawi, so that thousands of people to receive education.
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