Malawi OrphanageMalawi Orphanage

Our first permanent work opened in August 2012: an orphanage in Malawi, which we built with the intention of protecting orphan children from danger, providing them with shelter and food, enabling them to continue their education and contributing to their preparations for life.

In February 2011, we had launched the Bookmark Project and hundreds of volunteers from dozens of cities answered our call for kindness. After 10 months of hard work, we reached the necessary donation amount for the construction of our orphanage in Malawi. We built a home for 46 orphan children.

Malawi is one of the poorest countries in Africa, even though it has fertile land south of the equatorial belt with plentiful rain and it is rich in gold. Due to poverty, people are forced to starve and to eat grass and tree leaves, education and housing are scarce and the challenges which orphan children face are growing in Malawi.

We finished the orphanage project costing 130.000 TL thanks to donations from thousands of people and the operational support of the IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation which has been conducting field work in the region for years. Later, we handed its operational responsibilities to the IHH. 

Our first permanent work opened in August 2012: an orphanage in Malawi, which we built with the intention of protecting orphan children from danger, providing them with shelter and food, enabling them to continue their education and contributing to their preparations for life.

In February 2011, we had launched the Bookmark Project and hundreds of volunteers from dozens of cities answered our call for kindness. After 10 months of hard work, we reached the necessary donation amount for the construction of our orphanage in Malawi. We built a home for 46 orphan children.

Malawi is one of the poorest countries in Africa, even though it has fertile land south of the equatorial belt with plentiful rain and it is rich in gold. Due to poverty, people are forced to starve and to eat grass and tree leaves, education and housing are scarce and the challenges which orphan children face are growing in Malawi.

We finished the orphanage project costing 130.000 TL thanks to donations from thousands of people and the operational support of the IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation which has been conducting field work in the region for years. Later, we handed its operational responsibilities to the IHH.