My first thought when I saw that Madonna's plans for a girls school in Malawai had fallen apart was, not like Oprah, no good deed goes unpunished.Then this graf jumped out at me:
She and her aides offered no explanation of why, given her high interest in the project, she had not noticed the problems as they began unfolding.
And then I thought, well, maybe it's because she was too busy working on her profit-generating chain of fitness centers around the world. (You really can only do so much.) I'll retract this mean-spirited comment if and when those, too, fall apart as a result of gross financial mismanagement. (When is she going to stop hanging out with those "Yiddish Scientologists," anyway? Even I thought she was smarter than that.)
She had good intentions and has still brought good attention to Malawi's plight. My impression is the single school for girls is dunzo but investing in a series of schools is on the table; a HuffPo writer who had been vehemently against the prior plan praised this new one, though we'll have to see what comes to pass. $3.8 million is a lot to blow, but not in the grand (Madonna) scheme of things, and I'm sure lots of that cash came from a % of sales as opposed to straight donations.
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