Malawi official lauds Madonna for helping orphans

The Malawi government on Tuesday applauded Madonna’s efforts to put the plight of the country’s AIDS orphans on the global stage and raising money to support them.

Madonna and Gucci will host a fundraising event with dinner, musical performance and a party on February 6 next year to mark the opening of the Italian firm’s largest store in the world, on New York’s Fifth Avenue.

The charity event would benefit UNICEF and the charity Madonna co-founded in 2006, Raising Malawi, which focuses on trying to help Malawi’s orphans, many of whose parents have died of AIDS.

“Madonna has built clinics in rural areas where government has failed to reach and because of that she has saved many lives of pregnant mothers who could have died,” government spokesperson and Information Minister Patricia Kaliati told Reuters.

“What she is doing for orphans of this country very few super stars like her can do that, she has managed to put their plight on the world stage”.

Based on an article by Reuters.