Open Arms Infant Homes are transition homes for orphaned and abandoned babies, looking after vulnerable Malawian children from new born until they are strong enough to be reunited with their home communities. 

Open Arms believes that every child has the right to grow up within a loving family in a safe home, and gives children this chance. 

When a child goes home to their community Open Arms provides an outreach service, helping provide food security and medical care, and ensuring that the child is settling back into village life successfully. 

Where it is not possible to reintegrate children into their communities Open Arms provides further stages of care through its foster home programmes. 

Open Arms Malawi is the UK trust providing support to Open Arms Infant Homes and enabling their continued success.

What Open Arms Malawi does
Infant Care - from newborn to 2 years old, babies receive complete care in Blantyre and Mangochi Homes. Babies arrive at Open Arms through the hospitals and the Social Welfare Department and are often in desperate need of help. Once at Open Arms they will receive the medical care, shelter and nourishment, that their extended family.

Toddler Care – At Open Arms the main aim is to return a healthy and fit toddler back to his or her home community. Sadly, however, this is not always possible. In some situations, such as intense poverty within the home community, further deaths of relatives, or simply that a child has no extended family to return to.

Foster Care - the third phase of care that  can provide with your help is to foster house programme. The foster houses are situated within medium density areas of Blantyre City. The houses, owned by Open Arms, are clustered reasonably near to each other and are staffed by a House Mother and Assistant House Mother appointed from…

Outreach Programme - The main aim is to return a two year old to his or her home community healthy, strong and immunised. When a child returns home they will be looked after by their extended family, usually an aunt or grandmother. There are situations where a grandmother might be looking after eight of her orphaned grandchildren already.