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...somehow got special treatment, or make the implication of kidnapping, it gets mixed into a stew and it sells lots of papers. But care? People don't care and the media certainly doesn't care. What they should care about is that there are over a million orphans in Malawi, and following me around is just a gross misappropriation of attention and money. But I do think there's a certain amount of nationalism and racism thrown in there. I mean, there's a lot of Brits-reporters on the street-who've said, "Why don't you adopt...
...Banda, 32, lives in a small mud hut in the village of Lipunga, which sits close to the Zambian border about 112 miles west of Malawi's capital, Lilongwe. Poor and uneducated, Banda tends a patch of maize and a vegetable garden and every now and again gets a job reworking scrap metal. When his wife Malita Lungu, a Zambian who gave birth to David across the border in her native country, died just a week after David was born, Banda struggled to raise his son with the help of relatives and friends. But a month later he sent David...
...evening that combined weighty issues and humor, Farmer, the Presley professor of social medicine at Harvard Medical School, answered questions on issues from Haiti to Rwanda, and from the importance of civil activism in the U.S. to the process of building a public health system in Malawi...
...Baby David arrived with a bodyguard and nanny to join Madonna in her $15 million London home. Did she hope that by courting controversy, the stories that followed would get around to mentioning that Baby David's his life expectancy was in the process of doubling from 40 in Malawi to 78 in Britain? Or that she has donated $3 million to help 900,000 Malawian orphans with food, school, shelter...
...perfectly normal where he came from; a mother dead soon after childbirth, two brothers lost to malaria, a majority of the population living on less than a dollar a day. Are we really so sure we know where compassion ends and colonialism begins? One retired nurse in Northern Malawi was blunt: "We can't afford to look after the thousands of babies that are being orphaned every day," she told the London Independent. "If rich people like Madonna take just one child it will be a major boost for Malawi...