Madonna in Malawi in 2010 announced the construction of charity
LOS ANGELES Beijing January 25, according to foreign media reports, the pop diva Madonna (Madonna) has announced the African country of Malawi ( Malawi) to build a school for girls. However, until today, this project has not really started. Recently, there have been reports Madonna has already canceled the plan. The news is no doubt a lot of people disappointed.
less than a year announced plans to cancel
charity school for the abandoned building efforts, Malawi Education Minister Peter - Moussa Lika (Peter Mutharika) said: As a Government, we would like to know why there is such a turn of events. 500 poor children attending schools for girls. Campus is located in the outskirts of Malawi capital of Lilongwe, scheduled for completion during the year 2011. Madonna was announced under the plan, the school covers 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, and they targeted professional training to enable them to play in the future doctors and lawyers.
project encountered resistance
campus for the construction of this scale, a number of local villages, a total of more than 200 villagers to relocate, the villagers lost by the Government relocated to other villages nearby. However, the issue of compensation for the villagers and the government and produced Madonna's Foundation, a fierce conflict.
date, Madonna moved the villagers to provide only 50 million in cash compensation, the villagers according to their size of their houses, farmland and orchards in the scale were collected. The villagers believe that their living selling the land for generations, but received too little compensation. Even if the money can be sent to the villagers to hand in full, with an average of about $ 2,000 per person, but also. Lilongwe District Commissioner Kalumba said that all the project covers an area belonged to the Government of Malawi, an area and then allow the villagers living just because Madonna is now donated to the school, the villagers put on very much love to vacate.
addition to the demolition issue, criticized Madonna was also not the purpose of implementing this project alone. David and Massey said the same with the adoption, Madonna just want to improve the public image of Africa is essentially concerned only for a show.
Madonna now abandoned the plan makes this even more suspect. But she said he will continue to work in other parts of the country to establish a charity school. (Drdarknight)
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