child.
"Madonna was granted an interim order to adopt the child, which court to either allow her to adopt the child or not," said the high court's deputy registrar Thomson Ligowe.
how she will relate to the child, and people from social welfare will have to observe that.
The court will depend upon their observations to make a final decision."
The 48-year-old singer, a master self-promoter, has kept largely out of the limelight since arriving in Malawi on October 4, a visit to one orphanage.
Ligowe said Madonna was free to take the boy, David Banda, when she leaves Malawi, most likely later today.
Madonna, who has a son and daughter, has spent most of the past campaign to publicise the plight of some 900,000 orphans in the country 13 million people, where AIDS has destroyed many families.
adoptions.
a statement?
" asked Pam Wilson of the Johannesburg Child Welfare Society.
developing countries.
"There is a shortage of healthy babies in the First World, single parent and there are few babies in the system," she said.
However, international adoptions are not "an easy option", said Jackie Schoeman, executive director of Cotlands, a South African organisation that cares for children affected by HIV.
In Africa, orphans usually are absorbed into extended families, traditionally provided support.
Bill Philbrick, manager of the Hope for African Children Initiative, said there is increasing desire among communities to keep vulnerable or orphaned children within them.
To make it easier, grandparents, extended families or care givers need help to education and food security.
"International adoptions are not a solution. The answer is supporting the community," he said.
Which is what Eye of the Child, a child rights group in Malawi, has called on Madonna to do. In an open letter to "Madam Madonna" to help vulnerable children.
The group also applauded efforts by her charity Raising Malawi, which aims to set up an orphan care centre.
orphans, improve community participation and other community-based approaches to care for orphans. We believe that this type of efforts do not create and develop a dependency syndrome."
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