Madonna is joining forces with Gucci to raise funds for orphans in Malawi. They will host a fundraising event with dinner, musical performance and a party on February 6 next year to mark the opening of Gucci’s largest store in the world, on New York’s Fifth Avenue.
Madonna said the event will benefit UNICEF and the charity she co-founded in 2006, Raising Malawi, which focuses on trying to end the poverty and hardship suffered by Malawi’s one million orphans, many of whose parents died of AIDS.
” I am grateful that Gucci is joining forces with me to bring attention to a country with millions of children in desperate need of our help,” Madonna said in a statement. “Raising Malawi has already done tremendous work in helping these children. But we have much more to do and this event will surely bring us closer to our goal.”