MPHANDULA, MALAWI - AUGUST 19: Betino Phipi, age 21, sits with Suzana Nabanda, age 16, his new wife, on August 19, 2006 in Mphandula village, about 30 miles outside Lilongwe, Malawi. Mr. Phipi, a farmer, just got married a few hours earlier and he is showing his wife to the villagers. Mphandula is a poor village in Malawi, without electricity or clean water. Nobody owns a car or a mobile phone. Most people live on farming. About 7000 people live in the village and the chief estimates that there are about five-hundred orphans. Many have been affected by HIV/Aids and many of the children are orphaned. A foundation started by Madonna has decided to build an orphan center in the village through Consol Homes, a Malawi based organization. Raising Malawi is investing about 3 million dollars in the project and Madonna is scheduled to visit the village in October 2006. Malawi is a small landlocked country in Southern Africa without any natural resources. Many people are affected by the Aids epidemic. Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world and has about 1 million orphaned children. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson)
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