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Mon 04 Apr 2007Saluting Madonna's African aidI came and went to Malawi in the past fortnight without meeting Madonna at Lilongwe airport. I was there to observe the work of a remarkable new Irish organisation, Wells for Zoe, about which I'll be writing later this week., writes John Waters. Some reports said Madonna was there so her adopted Malawian son could visit his father. Others quoted her saying she was seeking a "sister" for David and had found the little girl she was looking for: three-year-old Grace, whom she had seen in a video taken in conjunction with the work of her charity organisation, Raising Malawi.