I'll adopt the orphanage, says Madonna

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But now Madonna has gone even further on her mission to Malawi – by hinting that she might take over an entire orphanage.

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Madonna's husband Guy Ritchie didn't join the family on this trip.

The 48-year-old announced she was planning to run the Home of Hope orphan village, where her son David Banda used to live.

She revealed the idea to the hundreds of youngsters who sang when she visited the centre in Mchinji.

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Daughter Lourdes joined Madonna and baby David on the Malawi visit.

She said: "I might take over the orphanage because the pastor here is getting old and is about to retire."

She added: "If Malawians will work hand in hand with me I will still help Malawi."

The Home of Hope village was set up in 1998 by the Reverend Tompson Chipeta, a retired Presbyterian minister who was an orphan himself.

Madonna, who is visiting Malawi with daughter Lourdes, ten, and 18-month-old David, is also planning to build a home for her family in Malawi.

She plans to spend up to a month a year there overseeing the orphanage, hospital and farming projects she is helping to fund.

She is using her current trip to Africa to look for a suitable piece of land on which to build her plantation.

She will meet planners, farmers and environmentalists with a view to building a self-sufficient estate powered by sustainable energy.

Her plans will go some way to dispelling the negative publicity that followed her adoption of baby David in October.

She was criticised over the speed of the adoption and for being chauffeurdriven in and out of five-star hotels.

A source close to the star said: "She was terribly hurt over the criticism surrounding the adoption. She felt the coverage was very damaging.

"She simply could not understand where all the negativity was coming from but she has reacted in a pragmatic way by throwing herself further into projects to help the country."