Blantyre has been wet and miserable recently so we've been trying to find things to do in the city instead of traveling out.
We found a great orphanage called open arms that we've been volunteering at, playing with the children, helping to feed them etc/ the orphange take in newborns till the age of three some have lost both parents, some just the mother but the father is unable to care for the child for the first few yrs and so the orphanage will look after them and then help to reintroduce them into their community and extended family if they have any.
It got me thinking what happened to their mothers- and yes although not all of them died during child birth a significant proportion had- leaving the baby defenseless. The statistics are that if a mother dies during child birth her new born baby is up to 10 times more likely to die in the first two years of life! And lets not forget the other children that the mother leaves behind of varying ages.
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