Project Africa

The company Carole and I both work for are enthusiastic supporters of staff who get involved with charity work in a variety of ways. One rather ambitious project being supported by Carole's part of the organisation at the moment is 'Project Africa', which aims to raise £60,000 to send two groups of staff to Malawi later this year to help rebuild a school. The people going out to Africa need to raise £5000 each as a minimum to fund the trip. Whilst the trip itself is much more adventurous than anything we'd consider ourselves, we are nonetheless happy to do our bit to raise funds.

So, Carole's team are busy hatching up a number of schemes to extract cash from colleagues at the moment in a bid to add to the fund and Carole's idea was to organise an African-themed quiz. Entries are £1 a go and so far it's proving very popular. Hopefully this will raise around £100 towards the trip.

Of course you can't have a competition without a prize, so earlier this evening we were doing our creative bit making a hamper for the winner. The hamper has an African theme, with wine from South Africa, coffee from Madagascar, Tea from Botswana and lots of other produce from a variety of African countries.

The only problem we may have is that our teams are based in several offices around the country and if the eventual winner isn't local to us then somehow we'll have to get it to them. We'll tackle that problem when it happens!

Closing date for the competition is 20 March, and I'll post details of how much we raised afterwards.