Madonna Tours The Slums Of Brazil
As we all know by now, Madonna is currently in Brazil with her much younger toyboy Jesus Luz and it has been reported that she is in the country to meet his parents. BUT, it turns out that Maddy is doing more in Brazil than just meeting her young lovers young mother (who is 14 years younger than Madonna is) … it turns out that she is also lookin’ to give aid to the poorest parts of the country. Here are a couple photos of Madonna touring the slums of Brazil with the governor of Rio in order to get a sense of help the country may need from her:
Pop veteran Madonna has paid a visit to a Rio de Janeiro slum as part of an ongoing crusade to establish social projects in the impoverished region. Joined by Rio’s Governor, Madonna toured the favela and also visited social projects run by local NGOs. During her week- long visit, Madonna met with local business people and officials in Brazil to collect donations for her. Local residents admitted visits from celebrities like Madonna helped their cause. ‘Her visit is very special to us, because like Michael Jackson and other artists who have visited the slum, for us it is always a great feeling to see artists here in the favela because many people outside discriminate us, while an artist, a governor, or a mayor don’t discriminate us.’ Michel Luz da Silva, a Dona Marta Favella resident said. Madonna has reportedly agreed to ring in 2010 at Copacabana beach and is considering a possible concert during the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games.
HMMM … it would seem that the special children in her life inspire Madonna to extend her philanthropic endeavors to the countries that they come from. First, Madonna adopts a couple of children from Malawi and then she founds an organization that seeks to bring aid to Malawi. Then she starts up a romantic relationship with a young man a few decades her junior and now begins to show interest in his homeland as well. Man, Madonna would do anything for her kids. I hear that the much ballyhooed meeting of Madonna and Mama Luz has already taken place … Cristiane Regina Da Silva (Jesus’s mother) was spotted making her arrival at Madonna & Child’s hotel earlier this week. It really sounds like things are getting serious. Could they really be in it for the long haul?
[Photo credit: Splash News; Source]
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November 14th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
…it’s good what she does. her popularity helps to draw awareness to the poorest of the poor. she uses her fame in the right direction !!!!!!!
BRAVO !!!!
November 14th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
@gunnarjet: AGREED!!!
Think of how many other people with so much money don’t do ANYTHING to help others! I greatly admire her for giving her time, effort and money (and influence) to make other people’s lives better. She is truly a very good, wonderful person.
I’d LOVE to meet her. Although, I’d probably melt into a puddle of intimidated, mush!!!
Imagine if she was president…. LOL!
November 14th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Madonna said her travels have nothing to do with meeting Jesus’ parents, your the only one ballyhooing about it. Madonna is their to explore new projects with her chairty
November 14th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
i find it funny that every time someone makes a post or article about Madonna and Jesus that they feel the need to remind everyone that she is older than him…i think the world gets it by now.
November 18th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
@patches—Thank you! Seriously, it’s getting annoying. Big deal.
I think it’s great that she is helping children all over the world and she started doing that decades ago, she’s gone more public in the last couple of years.