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Madonna has promised electricity to a village in Malawi, the impoverished southern African country where she runs a charity organization and from which she has adopted two children.

Speaking in Mphandula, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, the singer said Thursday: “I know you work in darkness. I will bring you electricity.”

Madonna’s Raising Malawi charity already has donated $500,000 for a child care center in the village that feeds and educates 3,000 orphaned children.

Madonna arrived in Malawi on Sunday accompanied by her four children. On Monday she broke ground for her $15-million Raising Malawi Academy for Girls.

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Madonna with kids at the Mphandula Child Care Centre, about 47 km west of Lilongwe, Malawi (October 29 2009)

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Madonna with David and Lola at the Home of Hope centre in Mchinji, 128 km west of Lilongwe, Malawi (October 27 2009)

Madonna turns the soil to lay the foundation of a multi-million dollar girls’ school she is building in Chinkota, outside Lilongewe in Malawi (October 26 2009)

US pop queen Madonna broke ground today on a girls academy she is building in Malawi, billed as a “gift” to the country where she has adopted two children.

The 51-year-old star cut a cake, planted a tree and turned the sod alongside her eldest daughter Lourdes, 13, at a colourful ceremony attended by about 500 locals on the outskirts of Malawi’s administrative capital Lilongwe.

According to a brochure for the Raising Malawi Girls Academy, the school will be a “leadership institution to prepare future women leaders” with 500 boarders including two impoverished girls from the country’s 28 districts.

It will “focus on mathematics and science which traditionally have failed in Malawi and elsewhere”, the brochure said.

Madonna’s school is modelled on a similar academy built by US television talk show host Oprah Winfrey.

In 2006, the chart-topping musician adopted a baby boy, David Banda, who is now three-years-old. She returned to Malawi this year to adopt a girl, Mercy James.

Madonna is also funding several charities in the small southern African country, including homes for children with AIDS.

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Madonna with kids at the Kabbalah centre in London (October 24 2009)