Smile Malawi is a charitable trust founded in the UK to help orphaned and vulnerable children in Malawi.

The first Smile Malawi Childrens' Centre opened in Ndokota in southern Malawi in October 2006.

We now have over 30 resident children. Smile Malawi is having a big impact not only on the children themselves, but on the whole community, and we are now looking at providing schooling to the village and club facilities for the village orphans.

Elspeth Baecke, Smile Malawi's founder, produces regular newsletters on Smile Malawi's progress; they are on the Progress page. The latest reports more new children (from the village), and progress on additional accommodation. We need funds to complete the building, though. If you can help, please make a donation. A supporter, Jamie Dartnell, ran a half marathon for us recently - if you can spare anything towards the building, please sponsor Jamie

Some of the children are approaching secondary school age. Public secondary education in Malawi is limited, and most secondary schooling is private; it cost around £3000 per year, per child.

Please help us to help more children by making a donation.

Here you can see a short video introducing the Centre and its children.

The Gallery has more pictures and videos.

Building a better future for children in Malawi