Malawi Goodwill Ambassador for Child
Welfare, Madonna, has raised $5.5 million (MK2.4 billion) to support people
displaced by the devastating floods which continue to wreck havoc across the
country.
The US pop mogul, joined by rapper Gucci Mane, raised the
funds from ticket sales and live auction during an event dubbed A Night to
Benefit Malawi and UNICEF held in New York.
According to a statement from Madonna's Raising Malawi,
the proceeds will be split equally between UNICEF and Madonna's organisation
Raising Malawi.
Madonna, who is acknowledged by the Guinness World Records
as the best-selling female recording artist and the fourth best-selling act of
all time behind The Beatles, Elvis Presley, and Michael Jackson, was Madonna,
was appointed the Goodwill Ambassador for Child Welfare by President Peter
Mutharika in December last year.
The superstar came under heavy fire from former Malawi
president Joyce Banda after scrapping plan for girls' academy. Madonna who
holds the record for the most number-ones on all Billboard charts with a total
of 156 number-ones opted instead for 10 classroom blocks with one housing about
50 students.
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