So the material girl finally got her way recently by winning a battle with charity workers over her adoption of a child from Malawi.
“(news.independent.co.uk) David Banda’s first year of life has been normal enough for Malawi. His mother died within days of giving birth to him, his elder brothers succumbed to malaria and his father, unable to cope, put him in an orphanage.
His future looked set to be the same as more than a million other children in Malawian orphanages: poverty, malnutrition, HIV/Aids, chronic disease and early death – life expectancy in the stricken African nation is just 40.
Yesterday, though, the 18-month-old boy’s life took an extraordinary turn; he was taken on a private jet to South Africa, accompanied by a bodyguard and a nanny, before heading for an opulent new life in London with the singer Madonna and her family.
But even as a Malawian court granted Madonna and her husband, Guy Ritchie, an 18-month interim adoption order and the right to take David out of the country, the controversy over the boy and his newly rewritten future continued.”..more
No matter how you want to see this, it still boils down to guilt relief. Otherwise she would have adopted one of the thousands of adoptable children in the U.K.
Guilt Relief: The next movement that doesn’t require a concert.
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