I Am Because We Are

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In the African nation of Malawi, disease, poverty and famine have taken a horrible toll, especially on young people -- in a country of twelve million people, one million are orphaned children. In 2006, pop singer Madonna began studying the crisis in Malawi, and decided to use her wealth and celebrity to help; she helped finance the construction of a home for orphans, founded a relief organization called the Raising Malawi Orphan Care Initiative, and as a personal example she and her husband adopted a boy from Malawi, David Banda Mwale, whose mother had died. Now Madonna has written and produced I Am Because We Are, a documentary about Malawi that attempts to demonstrate at the need for action by profiling eight children growing up without parents; these youngsters long for a better life and are strive to remain optimistic about the future despite the long odds fate has set against them.

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[BETOANDJESSE]

THANK YOU MADONNA

[maiwand1982]

Dear Madonna,

Thanks for alot for producing such a film, I watched it and it is really kind of hearth-touching film. It really shows the realities that how people are suffering from different aspects of lfe in Malawi. I hope everyone like you to have attention in this regard and share his/her help in this regard. Once again thanks..........

[yoyo8819]

Malawi is not the second poorest country in the world!! 

[kaite43]

It doesnt really bother me all that much that america is in a crisis.

America has been there before and i know it will get better.

Africa has been Destroyed many times, the US contributing to it.

And now that america is havig problems again, Selfless is wrong?

I wil always stride to improve, America and anywhere else.

#Ambitious mind<3

[welivetohelp]

EVOLUTION IS WHAT IT IS JUST THEORY..NEVER HAS BEEN PROVEN AND NEVER WILL!! PEOPLE LIKE TO TAKE THEORY AND TURN IT INTO FACT!! IT TAKES MORE FAITH TO BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION THEN IN CREATION :)

[welivetohelp]

IF EVOLUTION WAS TRUE (WHICH IS NOT) THEN ONE OF THESE SO CALLED SCIENTIST WOULD BE ABLE TO PROVE SPONTANEOUS GENERATION. WHICH STATES THAT A LIVING THING OR LIFE MUST BE CREATED FROM A DEAD OR NONLIVING THING ..NOW WE ALL KNOW THAT CAN NOT HAPPEN!! SO FOR EVOLUTION TO HAPPEN SPONTANEOUS GENERATION WOULD HAVE TO BE TRUE..2ND POINT FOR EVOLUTION TO BE TRUE SCIENTISTS STATE THAT EVOLUTION IS A LONG PROCESS AND THAT IT IS A VERY SLOW ELONGATED PROCESS HOWEVER, THE BIG BANG THEORY IS NOT HUMM??

[welivetohelp]

I PRAY THAT THE CHILD WHO REQUESTED THAT HE THEY MAY HELP HIM FORGET THAT HE IS AN ORPHAN WILL COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE THAT OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IS THE FATHER TO THE FATHERLESS!!

[drsw36]

@m0renachula704 LOOL!

[KatelynKingable]

Wow, Malawi became independent of the British on my birthday!

[Ayla8711]

@Ayla8711 -- wow, I'm a tard. I meant malawii not mozambique. My bad.