Orphans & Vulnerable Children

Lifeline Malawi (LM) delivers rural health care to orphans & vulnerable children with the purpose of addressing health issues of the child and his/her family, focusing on getting the sick child well and  back to school.

Lifeline Malawi is improving health standards and services available for children and their families by providing static clinics at both our Ngodzi and Kasese location and also by delivering outreach services to remote areas.

The services being offered in these clinics are of an integrated approach which combines the following services:

• Outpatient department
• Antenatal
• Family planning
• Under 5 clinics
• HIV Testing and Counselling (HTC)
• Community health

During the outreach clinics, the services that may be provided include:

• Paediatric Antiretroviral (ART) 
• Management of opportunistic infections
• Immunization
• Provision of Vitamins to under-five children
• Treatment of common childhood illnesses.

Lifeline trains local Malawian health workers and growth monitoring volunteers to treat these children in the static clinics and the remote clinics.

Currently, LM provides health care services to children in 15 Community Based Care Centres.  One LM clinician visits each of these centres once a month.  Activities include de-worming, growth monitoring, immunization and screening for minor illnesses.