By satellite from the UK, she said that she first spotted David in a documentary she is financing about Malawian orphans. "I became transfixed by him," she said. "But I didn't yet know I was going to adopt him.
I was just drawn to him." When she subsequently met the child at a Malawi orphanage, she was told he had survived malaria and tuberculosis but still had severe pneumonia. "I was in a state of panic, because I didn't want to leave him in the orphanage because I knew they didn't have medication to take care of him," Madonna said.
She told Winfrey that she gained permission to take the baby to a clinic, where he was given antibiotics. "He's still a little bit ill, not completely free of his pneumonia, but he's much better than he was when we found him." "I think if everybody went there, they'd want to bring one of those children home with them and give them a better life.
" "They've never once said, 'What is he doing here,' or mentioned the difference in his skin colour, or questioned his presence in our life. "That is an amazing lesson that children teach us." The boy's father, Yohane Banda, told Time magazine that he would not contest the adoption.
"I don't want my child, who is already gone, to come back. I will be killing his future," he was quoted as saying. "I was never told that adoption means that David will no longer be my son - If I was told this, I would not have allowed the adoption.
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