Last week we unveiled plans to help fundraise for Harrogate House 2 - a children's home in Malawi which cares for youngsters who have either lost their parents to AIDS or poverty or been abandoned.

Now, with the project up and running, organisers are asking you to support the scheme and help bring hope to hundreds of infants in need of the love and care they deserve.

In 2003, readers helped raise £25,000 in six months to build the original house on the main Open Arms site in Blantyre, the largest city in Malawi and the capital of the country's Southern Region.

Now, with the need for more care facilities further north in the country, the Harrogate Advertiser is fronting the campaign to Raise the Roof for Harrogate House 2.

Underway

The main Open Arms 2 site, on the shores of Lake Malawi in Mangochi, is now two months into its construction and volunteers hope to open the complex in June or July 2008.

Neville Bevis, who left Harrogate with his wife Rosemarie to establish the first Harrogate House, said the orphanage provides a key service to hundreds of infants.

He said: "Each year a number of children are admitted to Open Arms who have no opportunity of replacement within their own or any other community. All their relatives may have died, or perhaps they were abandoned.

"Adoption is an alien concept in Malawi and so Open Arms is often their only refuge."

• To donate to Harrogate House 2 online, click here.