Madonna's planned academy for girls in the African country of Malawi has been abandoned, despite the foundation behind it, "Raising Malawi," raising a reported $18 million in donations since 2006 and spending $3.8 million on the school itself. Newsweek combed through the numbers and is asking why only $850,000 of that was paid out in Malawi and nearly $3 million was spent by the L.A. office of Kabbalah Centre International, one of the project's partners.
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Sounds more like a tax dodge for Madonna than any humanitarian effort. I wonder what her ownership stake is in the Kabbala center. Or who actually runs it (her Rabbi? her neice's husband?)...18 million dollars could build 4-5 NICE schools in Africa, including a HIV control center.
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