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		<title>Madonna Will Not Build That School in Malawi</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://theblemish.com/images/2011/01/madonna-malawi-500x248.jpg" width="500" height="248" alt="" /></p>In April 2010, Madonna performed a brick laying ceremony in Chinkhota Village where she planned to build an all girls school to educate future doctors and lawyers called Raising Malawi Academy for Girls. Coincidentally, a couple months later her adoption of Mercy James was approved.
This month, Madonna announced she was scrapping plans for the school ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://theblemish.com/images/2011/01/madonna-malawi-500x248.jpg" width="500" height="248" alt="" /></p><p>In April 2010, <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/madonna/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with madonna">Madonna</a> performed a brick laying ceremony in Chinkhota Village where she planned to build an all girls school to educate future doctors and lawyers called Raising <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/malawi/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with malawi">Malawi</a> Academy for Girls. Coincidentally, a couple months later her adoption of Mercy James was approved.</p>
<p>This month, <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/madonna/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with madonna">Madonna</a> announced she was scrapping plans for the school and instead, building secondary schools elsewhere in the country. <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/malawi/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with malawi">Malawi</a>&#8217;s education minister Peter Mutharika said, &#8220;As a government, we&#8217;d be interested to know why there is a change.&#8221; Looks like <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/madonna/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with madonna">Madonna</a> and Michael Lohan went to the same school of bribery.</p>
<p>Besides, <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/madonna/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with madonna">Madonna</a> has more important things to devote her time and money to. Like her and her daughter&#8217;s Material Girl fashion line. Did you know <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/kelly-osbourne/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with kelly osbourne">Kelly Osbourne</a> was <a href="http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2011/01/24/kelly-osbourne-face-of-material-girl-replacing-taylor-momsen/">chosen as the new face</a> after they fired Taylor Momsen? That seems like a step down. <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/kelly-osbourne/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with kelly osbourne">Kelly Osbourne</a> looks like a bobble head. If you shook her around a few times, her big melon of a skull would keep bouncing up and down for a good five minutes.</p>
<p>See how easy it was to forget about that <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/malawi/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with malawi">Malawi</a> school? &#8220;<a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/malawi/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with malawi">Malawi</a> what?,&#8221; you&#8217;re probably asking yourselves.</p>

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		<title>The money is gone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Back in February of last year, Madonna managed to raise an estimated $3.7 million for her Raising Malawi charity. An impressive amount which could help the impoverished country. Now, 14 months later, the money is still unaccounted for despite many attempts to ascertain where it went.
The fundraiser had some problems, however. Even though Raising Malawi ...]]></description>
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<p>Back in February of last year, <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/madonna/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with madonna">Madonna</a> managed to raise an estimated $3.7 million for her Raising <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/malawi/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with malawi">Malawi</a> charity. An impressive amount which could help the impoverished country. Now, 14 months later, the <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511737,00.html">money is still unaccounted for</a> despite many attempts to ascertain where it went.</p>
<blockquote><p>The fundraiser had some problems, however. Even though Raising <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/malawi/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with malawi">Malawi</a> had been in business for two years, it was still not approved as a sanctioned non-profit at the time. Instead, Gucci formed its own Foundation — known as a 501 c3 — to collect the money. They brought UNICEF on board to give the event a feeling of legitimacy. But in the end, the efforts expended were for Raising <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/malawi/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with malawi">Malawi</a>, an organization founded by the Kabbalah Center of Los Angeles. Raising <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/malawi/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with malawi">Malawi</a> teaches the Kabbalah curriculum, called Spirituality for Kids, to <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/malawi/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with malawi">Malawi</a> orphans.</p>
<p>Now, fourteen months after the fundraiser, there’s no accounting for the money that came in. At the time, Gucci claimed that they’d underwritten the entire event, that $3.7 million had been raised and that it had been split between Raising <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/malawi/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with malawi">Malawi</a> and UNICEF.</p>
<p>But since then, the Gucci Foundation has still not filed a Form 990 tax statement, and neither has Raising <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/malawi/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with malawi">Malawi</a>. Calls to Gucci haven’t provided any information, and calls and emails to Raising <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/malawi/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with malawi">Malawi</a> haven’t been returned.</p></blockquote>
<p>Clearly the $3.7 million has already gone to help poor Malawians. Malawians by the name of David who live in <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/madonna/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with madonna">Madonna</a>&#8217;s house. David, once living in poverty, now has a gigantic diamond ring sized for <a href="http://theblemish.com/tag/madonna/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with madonna">Madonna</a>&#8217;s finger and a bunch of designer purses which he can use in high school if he so chooses. That David sure is lucky.</p>
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