
By now we all know about ‘Raising Malawi’, the charity co-founded by pop queen Madonna with an intention of spreading education among under privileged girl children in Malawi. Unfortunately, there has been quite a buzz regarding the land take over for the $15 million school project.
But the director of the foundation, Phillip Van den Bosche, blamed it on yellow journalism. In a recent press interview he denied of land dispute blasting the reports revealing the villagers’ concern of losing their lands. Rather he quoted the village head who expressed his gratitude for the project at a ceremonial event organized for the academy.
Raising Malawi is presently engaged in building an academy for local girls on a plot of 117 acres of land in the outskirt of Malawi capital, Lilongwe. The land take over for the project was a deal with 200 local farmers who would be paid a total of $115,000 as compensation for their land. According to Bosche, the people there now have “equivalent plots of agricultural land where they can continue their farming.”
We agree with Van den Bosche that Raising Malawi is truly a “beautiful” project unless any poor villager is deprived.







