Madonna lays foundation brick for new school in Malawi

By Sarah Karmali  on Wednesday 7 April 2010

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Madonna laid the foundation brick for a new school in Malawi yesterday, inscribed with the words ‘dare to dream.'

The singer was celebrating the start of construction on her $15 million girls academy, which will be just outside Malawi's capital, Lilongwe.

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Madonna is hoping that the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls will open in 2011, and is expected to help over 500 orphaned children.

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The Material Girl is currently completing a week-long tour of Malawi - which is where she adopted children Mercy James and David Banda - and overseeing the various charity schemes that she has launched in the country since 2006.

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Mercy sat alongside her adoptive mum at the brick-laying ceremony, and the pair were also joined by Madonna's biological daughter Lourdes.

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Wednesday 7 April 2010

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