London, Oct 27 (ANI): Madonna kick started the work on her new 10-million pound girls’ academy in Malawi by cutting a ribbon and planting a tree, and said she would build more schools across the world if this project was successful.

“Growing up in a privileged life, I took education for granted…but coming to Malawi has taught me a lot of things and I have learnt to appreciate what life gives,” the Daily Express quoted Madonna as saying at the ceremony held in the capital city of Lilongwe.

She added: “After seeing all the hard-working Malawian women, who are looking after families and communities, I realised how much they deserve to be educated.

“For me the best thing I could do was to build a school, a unique school that will create future female leaders, ­scientists, lawyers, doctors. And, if this school is successful, it will be used as a model to replicate it in other countries.”

The Raising Malawi Academy for Girls, funded by Madonna’s charity Raising Malawi, is scheduled to start in two years and will help educate 500 students.

London, Oct 26 (ANI): Pop queen Madonna has arrived in Malawi on behalf of her charity, Raising Malawi, to lay the foundation stone for the 15-million-dollar school she is building there.

The 51-year-old singer arrived on Oct 25 along with her four kids Lourdes, Mercy, Rocco and David.

The official said Madonna would take part in a groundbreaking ceremony for the girls school on Monday, reports the Telegraph.

The Material Girl adopted the Malawian-born Mercy this year after she adopted David in 2008.

Madonna”s Raising Malawi, a charity founded in 2006 when she first visited the country, helps feed, educate and provide medical care for some of Malawi”s orphans

London, Oct 26 : Madonna and her ex-hubby Guy Ritchie came together to play ‘happy’ family on a night out for the sake of their children.

The 51-year-old pop diva, Ritchie and children – Lourdes, 13, and Mercy, four – together visited a West London Kabbalah centre, reports the Mirror.

However an onlooker said: “They all looked glum.”

Recently Madonna had said that divorcing the ‘RocknRolla’ director was “challenging . . . I”m very grateful that I had work to do.  I may have thrown myself off a building.”