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Madonna with daughter Lourdes Leon pictured at the ground breaking ceremony for the Raising Malawi Academy For Girls today. Madonna has spent $15 million funding this project.

Madonna marked the start of construction of her school for girls in Malawi on Monday by planting a tree at the planned site of the $15 million school.

The 51-year-old celebrity arrived in the impoverished southern African country on Sunday accompanied by her four children — daughters Lourdes and Mercy, and sons Rocco and David.

Madonna adopted Mercy from Malawi earlier this year and adopted David from the country in 2008.

The singer was dressed in a dark summer dress and a colorful shawl during Monday’s ceremony in the town of Chinkhota, some six miles (10 kilometers) from the capital, Lilongwe. Together with eldest daughter Lourdes she planted a Moringa tree, a hardy tree with edible leaves.

“If this school is a success — with God-willing it will be — we will replicate it not only in Malawi but in other parts of the world as well,” she said.

The new school will be called the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls and will open by 2011 and educate 500 students, said its future principal, Anjimile Mtila-Opponyo. It will be similar to the school built by talk show host Oprah Winfrey in South Africa. MORE

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PS: Those shoes are Christian Louboutin’s Rollerball Loafers, and they sell for a modest $995.00!  Freakin A!

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Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Leon (b. October 14, 1996) who is becoming quiet the fashionista looks like a copycat image of her mother in the 1980’s film “Desperately Seeking Susan.”

Lourdes who just became a teenager and turned 13 a week ago wore a black leather jacket, flowered leggings, yellow Ray Ban sunglasses and an oversized bag as she danced her way out of their London Home.

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Wouldn’t you love to be a fly on the wall during one of these celebrity Kabbalah sessions?

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