So this past year (in 07), Madonna gave a bunch of money to Kabbalah – that’s no surprise.
What is surprising is her lack of donations toward her own organization in Malawi!
Of the $3.1 million the singer doled out altogether last year, $2.6 million of it went to the Kabbalah Center of Los Angeles. About $4,000 went to the center’s Spirituality for Kids – as promised from the sales of her children’s books.
Madonna also gave $250,000 to Mobilization Against AIDS, $15,000 to the “recording industry’s pet charity,” the TJ Martell Foundation for Leukemia and Cancer Research, along with donations to All Saints Church in Pasadena, California, to Los Angeles Jewish Big Brothers and Sisters, several other donations to smaller health organizations, and $23,000 to group that assists in constructing playgrounds in Russia.
But – rather surprisingly – the Material Mom gave no money to her own Raising Malawi charity, nor any other Malawian organizations. And of the $3.7 million reportedly earned from her fundraiser with Gucci and UNICEF no one’s heard hide nor hair of.
There’s still tax paperwork to be filed, but it does seem rather odd that Madonna should give no money to the country from which she adopted her son David.
Inneresting!
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