MADONNA has danced with Malawian children during a visit to an orphanage and urged them to "help themselves" instead of relying on her.
Wearing dark glasses and clutching David Banda, the one-year-old Malawian boy she is adopting, the singer toured the $US120,000 ($A143,000) facility that is home to 4000 orphans and which she helped to fund.
Surrounded by children, she jived to Malawian music accompanied by pounding traditional drums as staff and villagers sang Madonna thank you for coming .
The trip to the orphanage came at the end of a three-day visit to Malawi, during which Madonna visited the Home of Hope orphanage where David once lived, and where witnesses said he met his biological father.
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