As well as helping the orphanage and David Madonna and her husband gave the government a generous $3 million donation to help children in Malawi infected with HIV. They are also funding the Raising Malawi center to feed and educate Aids orphans in Mphandula. Mphandula is a village of mud huts with thatched roofs, no mains electricity, and only a handful of radios, where few would have heard Madonna's music. Many households there are headed by children who have lost parents to Aids and are left to raise their siblings. Of Malawi's population of 13 million, about one million are children who have lost at least one parent