Celeb News: Cemetery to replace Madonna's defunct Malawi school

Remixed

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When Madonna came here to cut a ribbon and plant a tree at a groundbreaking ceremony in 2009, hopes were high for her $15m (£9.4m) elite academy for girls. Three years later, the site looks like a quarried mine, with little activity beyond footballers kicking a ball around.

Madonna's plan was scrapped last year without a brick being laid. Now Malawi has come up with an alternative plan for the eyesore. It will build a monument to national heroes on the spot where the singer once promised to change hundreds of young lives.

Daniel Liwimbi, the country's tourism minister, said: "It was a cabinet decision to construct the heroes' acre at this site."

Unlike countries such as Zimbabwe, Malawi has no heroes' acre. The first president, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, who died three years after losing the country's first democratic poll, is buried in an expensive mausoleum in Lilongwe.

The third president, Bingu wa Mutharika, who died in office in April, was buried at the family mausoleum near his home village in southern Malawi.

The project is likely to cost the struggling southern African nation millions of pounds. Liwimbi said: "Malawians deemed to have done a heroic endeavour of national importance, and selected by committee, which will scrutinise whatever they did, will be buried there."

Madonna has adopted two children from Malawi. After announcing that plans for the girls' academy had been scrapped, her charity, Raising Malawi, said it was teaming up with the non-profit group buildOn to set up 10 schools instead.

This provoked criticism from Malawian education officials over a lack of consultation. Raising Malawi's website said the third of these schools was completed last month. The charity also claimed it would support scholarships for 10 girls to attend four years of secondary school.

Malawi's president, Joyce Banda, expressed reservations about Madonna's ventures during an interview in April. "Madonna came to Malawi and Madonna came to build a school, an academy like the one Oprah [Winfrey] built [in South Africa], but she changed her mind so I have a problem with a lot of things around the adoption of the children and the changing of the mind and then coming back to build community schools," she said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...?newsfeed=true

How nice that the charity will build 10 schools instead.

Andre

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the singer once promised to change hundreds of young lives.

That was mean.

Remixed

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Originally posted by Andre

That was mean.

Promises like this should always be kept

Retro

I'm pretty sure she didn't just decide to not finish "just because", as some people seem to think. She's building three more in different locations if I recall correctly.
Or something like that.

HausOfA-M

I thought this thread was something shady about her age at first

Boop

My god

Яeo.

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Originally posted by HausOfA-M

I thought these thread was something shady about her age at first

Glad I'm not the only one

Lover

Qwerty

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Originally posted by HausOfA-M

I thought these thread was something shady about her age at first

I saw "Cemetery replace's Madonna's..."

Katamari

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Originally posted by Lover

where is that from

Praise Mariallah

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Originally posted by HausOfA-M

I thought these thread was something shady about her age at first

As did I.

Lover

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Originally posted by Katamari

where is that from

i don't know but it fits in every madonna bashing thread made by remixed.

Remixed

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Originally posted by Lover

i don't know but it fits in every madonna bashing thread made by remixed.

How is this a Madonna bashing thread

It's explaining the situation of what actually happened and how the charity will actually be making more schools b/c Madonna failed to build hers. Learn to read before assuming

Lithium9

they spent all the money on cars, golf memberships, drivers

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...dered-millions

and those poor villagers who were forced to move out to make way for the girls' school SMH

Toxicity.

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Originally posted by Remixed

Promises like this should always be kept

Not the monsters always coming into negative Madonna threads

Let's not bring up the Gaga Japan wristband lawsuit. Promises like this should always be kept

Edit: This thread is yours. Of course. Always keeping Madonna's name alive on ATRL Remixed

Lover

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Originally posted by Remixed

How is this a Madonna bashing thread

It's explaining the situation of what actually happened and how the charity will actually be making more schools b/c Madonna failed to build hers. Learn to read before assuming

ok sorry. i only read defunct.

Remixed

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Originally posted by TheBritneySpears

Not the monsters always coming into negative Madonna threads

Let's not bring up the Gaga Japan wristband lawsuit. Promises like this should always be kept

That's off topic, but that promise was actually kept & the lawsuit was viewed without merit, but Gaga actually gave even MORE money to the cause!

In this situation Madonna didn't follow up on the plan until now where the charity is building more schools.

toyboy

i heard that earlier today..not good

and remixed, you are annoying. get a life!

JonnyϟLightning

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Originally posted by Lover

i don't know but it fits in every madonna bashing thread made by remixed.

Ki

YSL

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Originally posted by TheBritneySpears

Not the monsters always coming into negative Madonna threads

Let's not bring up the Gaga Japan wristband lawsuit. Promises like this should always be kept

It was kept, all the proceeds for the price of the wristbands were sent to Japan, on top of the millions she had already donated + the extra 400k she had to pay because the lawsuit wanted her to pay the taxes and shipping costs too.

Either way, it's irrelevant to this thread so why are you bringing it up?

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Anyway, this is sad. At least she's able to take care of two out of the many who are not so fortunate.