relying on her.
she is adopting, the singer toured the $120,000 facility that is home to 4,000 orphans and which she helped to fund.
Surrounded by children, she jived to Malawian music accompanied "This is a partnership, it's not (for) me to do everything but we need to work together and you have to help yourselves," Madonna told orphans, adults from the local village and orphanage staff.
HIV/AIDS has killed millions in Malawi, leaving more than a million orphans.
Raising Malawi, a charity co-founded by Madonna, provides food, education and health services to 32,000 orphans in the southern African country through seven community-based organizations.
papers for custody of local toddler David Banda.
finalize the adoption.
to circumvent the country's adoption rules, but the singer has insisted she is following the law.
charity work in Malawi during this visit.
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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