Comments on: Madonna’s star power in Malawi

By: YOUNG FUTURE

YOUNG FUTURE — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:50:30 +0000

“Celebrities are in a competition to outwin each other as to who own many third world orphans, I hope am wrong but if am not, shame”

she might have a bad motive but blv me she z doin de right thing! I think its gonna help u if u take it from a consequentialistic point of view! she gains her popularity YESS! But orphans get helped too…

By: nganga

nganga — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:45:34 +0000

Chikhamu,let us not get emotional here. I know for sure that everything that I wrote concerning my alternative view on ‘adoption’, is TRUE. You probaly know the legal definintion of adoption but I strongly DOUBT if you take into consideration other social aspects of adoption. In my dictionary, if I take care of my late sister’s children and accord them all the privileges that belong to my natural children..I have adopted them.
So I insist again and again that Malawians adopt only that the burden is huge because of the reasons I said in my earlier posting. So, thanks Madonna. I may be wrong,but then am only human and entitled to my own views.
Did I misunderstand you again sir/madam?.Mwinadi ndipitedi ku sukulu ngati inu!

By: straightalk

straightalk — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:48:59 +0000

The way i know the well to do people in Malawi kwao is to eat kanyenya pa bottlestore washing down ndi chi petroda ndikumayankhula zizungu zao zophochokaphochoka than kupelekako ka donation kochepa kwa ana ovutika.Nawonso ma politicians athu akaona ndalama mitu yawo imazunguzika kwambiri.We need to revamp the whole system in malawi in every sector.There is no vision in Malawi that’s why the only thing timatchuka nazo mu diaspora kuti dziko laumphawi ndi matenda a HIV, koma Malawi has many natural resources to get to greater heights if it can have leaders with vision and teaching every malawian the importance of hardworking.China ndi ulesi Amalawi azanga ndiumene wanyanya and we expect kuti zinthu zizasintha zokha out of dreams without doing something….forget no ways!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well done Madonna wapepusako mavuto ana ovutika athuwa.

By: Daisy Phiri

Daisy Phiri — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:18:13 +0000

We should be ashamed of ourselves that we are blocking Madona fair enough she is a foreign woman ,tough, BUT what have we Malawians done to support our own orphanage centres? Its not about adopting alone. How many maize farmers do we have in Malawi and how many have donated even just a bag of 50kg maize to feed these orphans? The issue is not about adopting but its about streatching our hands to reach the needy. Anyone who has never helped these orphans in any way from today onwards instead of giving out stupit comments look at your self first and think” WHAT HELP HAVE I GIVEN TO THE ORPHANS?” If the answer is no just shut up and ukagwere ok stretch your hand first osamangotsutsa ngati wotsutsa boma yet u are eating nsima kukhuta and that orphan is hungry.

By: chicci

chicci — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:52:14 +0000

Wonder,

Ukapanda manu usamaswa phale.

By: achilombo

achilombo — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:26:37 +0000

The bottom line is we must change our lives look at the shocking figures of orphans in malawi we are taltking of 10.000 rophans in one place only part of lilongwe what about the rest?

By: kamuvu

kamuvu — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:08:13 +0000

well done Madonna, hope more Malawians must be proud of u. Abroad like UK if u tell people that u come from Malawi could think is a district in Zimbabwe and could ask u ‘are from Mugabe or Nigeria?’ but now it seems most people know malawi since madonna linked with adoption.

By: Wonder Msiska

Wonder Msiska — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:03:53 +0000

Zephah,
Thanks for your comment on my comment but Do you follow celebrity adoptions at all? Do you follow Brangellina, Brad and Angellina Pitt’s adoption? Do your homework, Am only commenting on what I know. I am doing a study on them. Respect.

By: Chikhamu Rodgers

Chikhamu Rodgers — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:45:02 +0000

Do you really understand the meaning of the word, adoption?
Do you mean paying school fees for nieces and nephews is adoption? Is giving away clothes and feeding whole village sometimes, adoption?
I like the way you involve yourself in these articles and the way you use your fingers on the keyboard, but i think, it could be better for you, to take your exercise books and go back to school, because you missed very importand thing, that is, an understanding. That would be great my dear.

By: Aku

Aku — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:23:09 +0000

I for one feel that as a nation we have failed ourselves in many ways for a long period of time. I wonder, whether it is ignorance, poor planning, or wrong and dying cultural values. Growing up in a village in the deep south there were children who had no parents. They were cared for by relatives & everyone in the village from the young to the old- I guess everybody did their best to provide a caring environment- but nobody in that village could be described as rich. So caring for the orphans is not a question of being rich- but how accommodating people are to the plight of those who are somehow worse off. Today HIV/AIDS has just worsened the crisis. Somehow I feel the NGOs have made the problem of orphans worse- by giving hope that out there children can be cared for by non-kin. Tell me what good do the NGOs like the one headed by Undule are doing- other than unhelpful noise while the bosses like himself are getting rich by appropriating money from unsuspecting (if not colluding with) donors. Our challenge is that NGOs spend lots of money on cars and allowances- not delivering the services. People want Madonna and the rich others to send more money for orphans so that they can line their pockets, build better houses in Mzuzu, lilongwe and Blantyre. who should be blamed here? If giving to orphanages is self-less, adopting one is more than self-less. Let’s not blame the govt- as if the govt has solutions to all our problems. How much tax does the govt collect- with the majority not paying income tax. Lets also blame ourselves for risking life & also ignoring sound advice about family planning. To be rich should not be a curse or license for relatives to have more children expecting that the rich relative will take care of them.