Welcome to the online fundraising page for RBS Project Africa. Forty members of RBS staff are travelling to Malawi during June 2008 working in partnership with Quest4Change to build a clinic with the local community. This page is a way of donating to all of those individuals who are currently embarking on a whole range of activities from jumping out of planes, making cakes, running races, abseiling from tall buildings and organising a whole range of other fundraising activities.

Why?

- 75% of the population in Malawi live in rural areas and of these only 29% of the population have access to health services

- Life expectancy in 1995 was 45. It has now fallen to 37

- Infant mortality is the 15th highest in the world - 183 children under five in every 1000 will die

- In Malawi an estimated 400,000 children have been orphaned

What are we going to do?

- Working with the Joshua Orphan Care Trust based just outside of Blantyre in the South of Malawi the team will be working alongside villagers to construct a new clinic. Health workers provided by the District Health Office will then be able to visit and provide regular healthcare for over 1,000 local people in the Pen Sulo district.