Madonna Recalls Emotional Fight to Adopt Daughter Mercy James: ‘I Never Gave Up’

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Madonna Recalls Emotional Fight to Adopt Daughter Mercy James: ‘I Never Gave Up’

early eight years ago, Madonna went up against Malawi’s highest court to win the right to adopt then-4-year-old Mercy James.

Fast forward to today, the songstress opened the country’s first-ever pediatric surgery and intensive care center, which she named The Mercy James Institute for Pediatric Surgery and Intensive Care, after her now-11-year-old daughter.

At the opening ceremony on Tuesday, Madonna recalled the emotional three-and-a-half year journey she went through to call Mercy her own after she had successfully adopted son David Banda in 2006.

“I met Mercy soon after I met my son David, but they were living in different orphanages. David was in Mchinji in Home of Hope, and Mercy was here in Blantyre at Kondanani. Mercy was suffering from malaria, and David from pneumonia. And when I held each of them in my arms, I whispered in their ears, that I would look after them. And I promised them that they would grow up into strong and healthy adults,” Madonna told the audience at the Queen Central Hospital.

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Date Posted: Wed, 12 Jul 2017, 04:34 pm

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