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MPHANDULA, MALAWI AUGUST 18: Luciana Malunga, age 8, lights a fire outside the family house on August 18, 2006 in Mphandula village, about 30 miles outside Lilongwe, Malawi. 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 reside in the village and the chief estimates that there are about five-hundred orphans. Many has 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/Getty Images)