Volunteer for Children

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This is Janet.

She’s one of the hundreds of thousands of orphans living in Malawi, Africa, where millions of mothers and fathers have died from HIV/AIDS. Janet is one of the lucky children, if you can call a child without parents “lucky”, because she now has a safe place to sleep at the Mtendere Orphans Village near Lumbadzi.  

Janet was found abandoned, starving, barely alive living under a bridge. Unfortunately her heartbreaking story isn’t unique in a country that’s seeing an unprecedented numbers of HIV/AIDS cases where people re dying every day. In Malawi the life expectancy is only 37 years old, turning Malawi into a country of more than one-million orphans.  

There are so many places in the world where volunteer help is so desperately needed but when I was researching volunteer vacations for my upcoming TRAVEL THERAPY book Malawi and its children jumped out at me. I knew I needed to go. I didn’t know what I could do to help but I knew I had to try and quickly learned that one person really can make a difference!

Coming up…more on what you need to know to volunteer in a country like Malawi and how to help the children at the Mtendere Orphanage and other Orphanages in Malawi.