Pop Queen
Madonna is teaming with fashion giant
Gucci and a posse of her closest celebrity friends to raise money for orphans in Malawi.
As you all remember Madonna adopted her little boy David from Malawi and has since donated her time and money to orphans there. She will host a fundraiser on February 6th to open Gucci's new NY Fifth Avenue store. The fundraiser will include a dinner, special performance, and a swanky party.
"I am grateful that Gucci is joining forces with me to bring attention to a country with millions of children in desperate need of our help," Madonna said in a statement. "Raising Malawi has already done tremendous work in helping these children. But we have much more to do and this event will surely bring us closer to our goal."
Madonna is hoping to raise at least $2 million dollars to benefit UNICEF and the charity Madonna co-founded in 2006, Raising Malawi, which helps the country’s one million orphans, many of whose parents died of AIDS.
Madonna even got some of her closest celebrity friends to co-chair for the event including Adrien Brody,
Salma Hayek, Tea Leoni, Lucy Liu,
Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher and
Gwyneth Paltrow.
For more information about the charity or how you can help, check out their official website at
www.raisingmalawi.org
