Madonna In Malawi On Charity Trip

Pop icon Madonna has returned to Malawi to oversee construction of a school for orphaned girls she funded and launch a new education campaign using mobile technology.

The singer is on a trip with her Raising Malawi charity she began in 2006, and would watch the first bricks laid down at her school.

The Raising Malawi Academy for Girls, located in Chinkhota village about 15kms outside the capital, Lilongwe, according to the charity’s website.

Madonna would also visit the Millennium Village — a United Nations-backed project to fight poverty — along with economist Jeffrey Sachs and CEO of consumer electronics firm Ericsson Hans Vestberg. She and Vestberg will formally announce an education campaign.