Madonna‘s charity/school,  Raising Malawi has fallen apart.  What started out as a great idea and a huge hope for so many, is now as good a no more.

“A thoughtful decision has been made to discontinue plans for the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls, as it was originally conceived,” the organization’s cofounder Michael Berg, who founded it with Madonna in 2006, said in a statement.

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So how did it all fall apart?  In the fall, executive director Phillippe van de Bossche was fired after he was accused of misappropriating funds.  He essentially ruined it for everyone by taking gross advantage of Madonna.

Now any funds left will be used elsewhere to help the devastated country.

“There’s a real education crisis in Malawi,” Madonna said in a statement on Thursday. “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.”

I just hope that there is some good that can come out of this.  It’s certainly not the children’s fault, yet they are the ones who lose and suffer in the end.  Breaks my heart.

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