OrphanCare Foundation works to to give children who are living in institutions and unplanned newborn babies whose lives are at risk of abandonment, the opportunity to grow up in a loving family. It works closely with the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development and the Department of Social Welfare (JKM) and has partnered with LUMOS, an international non-profit organisation that advises nations about deinstitutionalisation, to coordinate the transition from institutional care for children to a family and community based care system.