Reuters reported yesterday that Madonna is planning a fund-raising event with dinner, a musical performance and a party, that will benefit UNICEF and the charity she co-founded, Raising Malawi.
Madonna will team up with Gucci and will host the fund-raising event on February 6, 2008.
Why that date? Well, to mark the opening of Gucci’s largest store in the world, on New York’s Fifth Avenue!
Madonna said in a statement: "I am grateful that Gucci is joining forces with me to bring attention to a country with millions of children in desperate need of our help. Raising Malawi has already done tremendous work in helping these children. But we have much more to do and this event will surely bring us closer to our goal."
If you haven't heard of Raising Malawi before, it's a charity that focuses on trying to end the poverty and hardship suffered by Malawi's one million orphans, many of whose parents died of AIDS.

If things go as expected, the event is supposed to raise about $2 million!
Madonna will be joined by a list of celebrity co-chairs in the event, like Adrien Brody, Arpad Busson, Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault, Tea Leoni, Lucy Liu, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher and Gwyneth Paltrow.