The Madonna Impact: Malawi

Madonna in Malawi

Madonna is celebrating one year since the opening of the Malawi hospital named after her daughter Mercy.
This July, she returned to Mercy James Institute for Pediatric Surgery and Intensive Care in Blantyre, Malawi with all six of her kids. She posted a photo on Instagram smiling alongside Mercy, Lourdes, Rocco, David, and twins Estere and Stelle.

"Tree of Life.....Mercy James Pediatric Hospital! One Year Later!"

Madonna was welcomed in Malawi for the official opening of a hospital children's wing funded by her charity and named after one of the four children the pop star has adopted from the impoverished southern African nation.
"You started by adopting four Malawian children, now we are adopting you as the daughter of this nation," President Peter Mutharika declared at the ceremony.
"There are so many things I never imagined I will do. I never imagined one day I will build this kind of a hospital," said Madonna, who explained that she grew up without a mother and wanted to give the best to Malawian children.

The Mercy James Institute for Pediatric Surgery and Intensive Care, located at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in the city of Blantyre, was built in collaboration with Malawi's health ministry. It has already started some activities, and Madonna said last week that the institute had completed its first surgery.
The four children she adopted from Malawi are David Banda, Mercy James, Stelle and Estere. The children's wing was named after 11-year-old Mercy.

Raising Malawi Foundation

 Madonna's charity, Raising Malawi, was founded in 2006 to address the poverty and hardship endured by the country's orphans and other vulnerable children. It has built schools and funded the new pediatric unit, which began construction in 2015 and includes three operating rooms dedicated to children's surgery, a day clinic and a 45-bed ward.