The Glasgow Restaurant Association together with 5pm are hoping to raise funds for a project manager to work between schools in the South West Region of Malawi. 

Through Glasgow Dinearound & other events during the month of May, they aim to raise £12,000 which will pay for the Project Manager's Motorbike and his salary for the first year.

To help raise money for this worthy cause and indulge in top notch food in some of Glasgow's finest restaurants whithout breaking the bank please dine in the following restaurants throughout May:

Cafe India

City Merchant

Corinthian Club

Dakhin 

Di Maggio's

Dhabba

Di Maggios

Esca

Ingram Wynd

KoolBa

Maggie Mays

Mediterraneo

Metropolitan

Sapporo Teppanyaki

Further information on the cause: 

Malawi Leaders of Learning is a unique opportunity and a new Scottish partnership being forged between the council's education services and Malawi's South West Division. It is a two-way charity and development scheme aimed at sharing resources and expertise between two countries to improve the quality of learning and teaching for Malawian children.'

In Malawi, primary school is free and well attended in the early years, however only 35% of pupils complete and fewer still, mostly boys, go on to secondary school. Some children have to travel huge distances to get to school and there are around 12,000 children in one school where the ratio of children to classrooms is 517:1 

Conditions are so difficult and teachers only teach in their specialist area - in one school they will have 25 teachers for about 500 pupils, compared to some other schools they are doing quite well, however they still have classes of well over 100, while teachers stand about doing nothing as they are not trained to teach them.

Since 2008 Holyrood Secondary School have been sending senior pupils out to Malawi to work in schools and for years the focus has been mainly on infrastructure and building more classrooms. Holyrood's headmaster Tom McDonald together with chief executive director of education, Maureen McKenna spearheaded an ambitious plan to broaden that experience and this year, pupils and teachers have been working with groups of Malawi children to develop their literacy skills and supporting children with additional needs. "Through Malawi Leaders of Learning, we aim to work alongside education staff in Malawi to improve the quality of learning and teaching in Malawi to enable more children to stay longer in education thereby improving their life chances."