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Issue 52: March 2005  Articles
The Malawi Update is produced by the Scottish Malawi Network. This issue has been compiled and edited by Jim Wilkie. The opinions expressed in the Update are not necessarily those of the Network.
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Lord Provosts in Action (1) Glasgow Burns Supper Delivers new Maternity Unit for Malawi Liz Cameron, the Lord Provost of Glasgow, has confirmed that the fundraising effort at her annual Burns Supper has secured a new Maternity Clinic for the people of Malawi. Glasgow held one of the world's biggest Burns Suppers on Friday 21st January - broadcast worldwide on the Internet. Almost 900 guests from all walks of city and Scottish life were present at the Glasgow Thistle Hotel for the annual Lord Provost's Burns Supper, celebrating Scotland's national poet Robert Burns. The guests raised a record £43,006 on the night, with the charity World Emergency Relief matching pound for pound up to £40,000 the funds needed to help meet the costs of constructing a new Maternity Unit on the site of the David Livingstone Clinic - a centre already established by the kind generosity of Scots. The fundraiser therefore secured more than £80,000 in total. (2) Edinburgh Conference on Malawi In the autumn Lesley Hinds, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh will host a conference whose agenda will be determined largely by the report of the Prime Minister's Commission for Africa. (www.commissionforafrica.org). It will take account of any new issues emerging from the G8 summit at Gleneagles in July and of the views of correspondents in Malawi, and the Malawi Government. Further details from the Lord Provost (lord.provost@edinburgh.gov.uk). |