Madonna who is known for pushing limits in her musical stream is currently planning on pushing limits with respect to philanthropy. On her 60th birthday which falls on the 16th of August, she will be partnering with Ripple in a month-long activity to help orphans by raising funds. This program ‘Raising Malawi’ aims at assisting orphans in Malawi, a charity which was established by the pop singer over 10 years back.

Amid the fundraising frame that began from July 30 and which will keep running until August 31, Ripple has focused on coordinating all the general public donations that will be made in support of Madonna’s motivation.

As indicated by Madonna, the gifts will particularly be intended to benefit the charitable at the Home of Hope orphanage in Malawi. Till present, US$28,783 had been raised by means of Madonna’s Facebook page.

Ripple’s announcement on July 31st, 2018 on Twitter-

Partner with us to sponsor children thru @raisingmalawi and help transform their futures. https://ripple.com/insights/ripple-and-raising-malawi-launch-campaign-to-sponsor-children-in-need/ …

12:47 AM – Jul 31, 2018, @Ripple

A huge number of Orphans to Benefit

In an announcement given by Ripple, the firm stated that Malawi has near one million kids who have been orphaned after their parents passed away due to suffering from HIV/AIDS-related difficulties.

Eric van Miltenburg, Ripple’s senior VP of business tasks said that– “We’re honored to be a part of Raising Malawi’s amazing work with some of the world’s most underserved children.”

However, Ripple’s announcement did not demonstrate whether the donations would be accepted in XRP or USD.

As per Miltenburg, Ripple was acquainted with Raising Malawi six years ago by its investors at Sound Ventures which is a tech venture finance established by Hollywood performing artist Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary.

Sparing Endangered Species From Extinction

In May this year, as CCN revealed that Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher joined forces with Ripple to give US$4 million in XRP to the Ellen DeGeneres Wildlife Fund, a philanthropic begun by entertainer and host, Ellen DeGeneres, with a perspective of supporting worldwide preservation efforts for species that are endangered.

Other initiatives by Ripple

Back in this year, Ripple and its officials gave XRP worth around US$29 million to help government funded schools in the United States by means of the DonorsChoose.org charitable. As the charitable noted, the Ripple donation was the greatest that DonorsChoose had ever gotten subsequent to being established for near two decades.

The donations by Ripple and its administrators satisfied needs from more than 28,000 government funded schools by giving the teachers and their students supplies of books, field trips, innovation and different assets required for learning.

“We are awestruck by the generosity of the Ripple team,” the originator of DonorsChoose, Charles Best, said in an announcement. “Their gift will provide learning materials and experiences to more than a million students, overwhelmingly in low-income communities.”