Madonna's much heralded Malawi school is not open and is not going to open, but what happened to the money?
All Madonna wanted was her own private school for impoverished African girls, just like Oprah has (minus the molesty stuff). What she got is a PR nightmare. Her mismanaged charitable foundation, Raising Malawi, is on the verge of collapse, and $3.8 million designated for the school have all but vanished into thin air.Jacked from Gawker
The problem, it seems, lies in the two people she entrusted with the task. According to a report compiled by the Global Philanthropy Group for her fundraising partners at the Kabbalah Centre (yeah, she's still into Yiddish Scientology), executive director Philippe van den Bossche's "level of mismanagement and lack of oversight was extreme," and school head Anjimile Oponyo's "lack of substantive knowledge of the practical application of educational development" both contributed directly to the project's collapse. (It bears mentioning that Tracy Anderson—Madonna's celebrity trainer and financial kryptonite in her own right—is van den Bossche's live-in girlfriend.)
So what happened to the $3.8 million, much of which was donated at swanky Hollywood fundraisers by the likes of Tom Cruise and Gwyneth Paltrow?
Apparently much of it went to architect and design fees—you think Madonna would put her name on a Malawian girls' school that looked less than Richard Meier fierce? Then there were the staff salaries—gotta get the staff paid whether or not children are actually, you know, learning—plus expenditures for Oponyo's golf club membership, car and driver.
Both cited strict confidentiality agreements when approached by the New York Times for comment. But Madonna, who adopted two children from Malawi, released this statement:
There's a real education crisis in Malawi. Sixty-seven percent of girls don't go to secondary school, and this is simply unacceptable. Our team is going to work hard to address this in every way we can...While I'm proud of these accomplishments, I'm frustrated that our education work has not moved forward in a faster way.
Fine, Madonna. You're richer than god. You got four minutes to save the school.
7 comments:
Maybe if she really cared about the organization they wouldn't have been able to steal from it and she would have entrusted it to people who actually know what they're doing... she talking about an education crisis abroad - what about the one here...
she's american right? Schools in nyc, detroit, wdc....are failing too right?
If she's american or not, I am glad that she was going to do something to help this country and the little girls. She could have kept the money for herself.
She probably trusted those particular people because they have been involved with that type of thing before. However, it may have been too much money in their hands.
No one should steal money that's being used for good. It is just wrong!
Was there really going to be a School? She cut through plenty of Red Tape to get David and Mercy.
this old whore of babylon and her kabbalah crabs have been drawing large salaries off all the charity money, they pocketed almost all of it for her lifstyle she is so desperate to be relevant, she's sad sorry ass dried up tramp who pays for sex.
this kabbalah fraud is under grand jury investigation in new york for misappropriation of millions of dollars resulting subpoenas all round - she needs to be brought to justice and imprisoned, or sent to malawi and left to the elements of the harsh african deserts.
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http://kabbalahstudentsspeak.com/2011/04/18/an-essay-on-the-underlying-root-of-it-all/
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