Raising Malawi is a charity non-profit organisation, co-founded by Madonna and Michael Berg in 2006 in conjunction with the Kabbalah Centre Charitable Foundation[1]. It is dedicated to helping with the extreme poverty and hardship endured by Malawi's one million orphans.
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Since 2006, Raising Malawi has been dedicated to bringing an end to the extreme poverty and hardship endured by Malawi’s one million orphans. Co-founded by Madonna and Michael Berg, Raising Malawi uses a community-based approach to provide immediate direct physical assistance, create long-term sustainability, support education and psycho-social programs, and build public awareness through multimedia and worldwide volunteer efforts.
As a part of its activities, Raising Malawi works to distribute financial support that will help community-based organizations provide vulnerable children with nutritious food, proper clothing, secure shelter, formal education, targeted medical care, and emotional support. We do not create or manage our own programs in Malawi; rather we support dedicated people on the ground and in the villages, the ones closest to the realities that exist. We believe in empowering the smartest and most caring of those people, the ones who understand the challenges and the solutions.
By choosing to work at a community-based level, rather than trying to impose Western beliefs and methodologies on a different culture, real and lasting change is occurring in the lives of hundreds of thousands of impoverished children in Malawi. [2]
On February 6, 2008, Madonna and Gucci hosted a fundraiser on the North Lawn of the United Nations in New York to benefit Raising Malawi & UNICEF. [3]
On October 29th, 2009, Madonna vowed to match, dollar for dollar, every donation made towards any Raising Malawi Projects.
In May 2008, Madonna hosted the premiere of a documentary that she wrote and produced titled, I Am Because We Are, at the Tribeca Film Festival. [4] Directed by Nathan Rissman, the film follows the stories of several Malawian children who have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS and poverty. [5]
The documentary was also screened at the Cannes Film Festival in connection with the 2008 amfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala, [6] and at the Traverse City Film Festival in Michigan. On March 25, 2009 the documentary officially debuted on Youtube and Hulu.
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Official website: RaisingMalawi.org
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