Here's an article about the children's home where Madonna found David Banda. The statistic quoted in this article is 48 million children in Africa who are vulnerable. "Vulnerable" is a pretty vague term, and I'm sure it includes all kinds of categories. But the people interviewed seem united in a belief that Madonna has done a very good thing for this one child, and that her contributions to Malawi will be a very good thing for many, many, many children. The article concludes, quoting the editor of a Lilongwe newspaper: "I don't know why she picked Malawi, but thank God she did."
In my comments, Jenny (my borrowed view) left a link to an NPR story that was written in response to the hoopla over Madonna's adoption. I very much enjoyed it and so thought I'd repost it for anybody who didn't see it in the comments. Here it is.
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Glad you liked the NPR story - I had tears rolling down my face listening to it (but I always cry at anything to do with children. Come to think of it, I'll cry at anything - my kids brought hoem a Smoky Bear comic book, probably the exact same one I got when I was a kid, and I was crying at the tale of the little bear orphaned by the forest fire!)
Oh, man, me too. I just finished reading a book called Daughter's Keeper, and I was bawling! A childbirth description (which there is one of in the book) sets me off every time, and other plot elements, too - I don't want to give it away, but I haven't cried so much at any book in a while.
Yeah, Dr B, I just saw that on BBC and posted about it. I wonder what he was told and whether he still has anything to say about what happens.
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