Madonna Louise Veronice Ciccone, better known as the world star Madonna, was born on August 16th, 1958 in Michigan, more precisely in the little town of Bay City. Today, she’s looking back over a 25 years career on stage she can be proud of. Not only because Madonna is a gifted musician and above all a supreme songwriter, but also because she’s innovated music history by her extravagant and elaborate music videos. With her partly obscene-looking videos, Madonna doesn’t intend anything but to stir people up, so that they think about certain problems predominant in our world and change something about them by their commitment.

You only have to think of Madonna’s spectacular show, in which she roiled the whole world with her crucifixion scene. This is just typical of the exceptional artist Madonna, for she actually wanted do express that a big potential need for help does not only exist in Malawi. In Malawi, Madonna has, among other things, started an aid project, and besides that, she puts all her energy in many other projects. With her crucifixion scene, though, she wanted to point out in a very drastic way that the misery on our world is not simply focused on one single place. Madonna is of the opinion that the willingness of mankind to help is asked here, for each and every one of us can and should do something against the poverty in this world and, for example, against child mortality.

Furthermore, Madonna has made her mark in the world of fashion. What we can see here, is a designer always creative and eager to work on new outfits. It was already quite early in her life that Madonna made her experiences in the world of fashion, as she indeed was a very popular model. With her campaign against the Iraq War, she’s caused another wave of protest, as with nearly all of her actions. Radio stations boycotted Madonna’s songs, a fact that might have damaged her career in the USA but is far from having knocked her off course.

She will continue fighting against this kind of politics with all her energy and commitment. With her project “Raising Malawi”, Madonna clearly sets an unconventional example of aid. She declares that people should consider the high amount of more than 1,000,000 orphan children alone in Malawi a sign to open their homes and their hearts and give those children a new home. People can also help this way, as there are so many couples with the strong wish of having a child, so why not give those children a save and happy future? Those children can be saved from a life without love and full of poverty and death. Madonna as well hopes that her project makes people think about their own motives of acting and get own ideas of where and in which form help is needed.

Everyone can do something to help the children of this world, especially those in Malawi.

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