The 21 people who put their famous faces to work for July issue say it all. Annie Leibovitz paired them up on 20 different covers - shout outs for the challenge, the promise, and the future of Africa.
Madonna is featured on two covers (#10 & #11). Photos courtesy of Amazon.com :
Raising Malawi
Madonna lends a hand.
by Punch Hutton July 2007
Madonna has done her homework. And her fieldwork. She first visited Malawi in April 2006 after Victoria Keelan, a native Malawian businesswoman, reached out to her because of the work Madonna has done with Spirituality for Kids, a nonprofit organization which aids children in impoverished and devastated areas across the globe. Madonna recalls that Keelan advised, "Look, if you're in the business of helping children, we have over a million orphans here in Malawi and the problem is insane. It's an emergency. And they need your help."
This past October, Madonna took her second trip to Malawione of the poorest countries in the world, with 42 percent of its citizens living on less than a dollar a dayand adopted her son David, almost two, who, at the time, was suffering from malaria and pneumonia. In this nation of about 13 million, one million are children who have lost at least one parent to aids.
Madonna was spurred to action. She met with medical anthropologist Dr. Paul Farmer, who has dedicated his life to raising the standard of health care for the world's destitute, and had conversations with Dr. Jim Yong Kim, the director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, at the Harvard School of Public Health. Through her Raising Malawi organization, she joined a team that began setting up Millennium Villages, which provide maize seed and fertilizer to households, build water and sanitation infrastructures, help start schools, and make medicine more accessible.
Currently, she is working with film director Nathan Rissman on a documentary which aims not only to heighten awareness and effect change in Africa but also to explore what goes on in the heads and hearts of orphaned children. "I'm making my own discoveries as I go," she says. "You have those great moments of despair and inspiration simultaneously."
source : vanityfair.com
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both covers are very beautiful. but the one with Maya Angelou is very touching. I love them.
June 6, 2007 8:01 PMshe always takes a beautiful photo...they always have SOME kind of moving effect!
June 8, 2007 2:15 AMShe looks gorgeous.
June 8, 2007 7:29 AMNice...
July 9, 2007 1:35 PMinteresting
July 9, 2007 3:12 PMinteresting
July 19, 2007 11:47 AMinteresting
August 17, 2007 8:37 AMinteresting
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