Supporting charity in Malawi

Lucy, our daughter, has lived in Malawi for over 4 years and we have on her recommendations supported many small and local projects from our fun-raising efforts. She knows, and we know, that the money will go exactly to the people who need it, and she knows who is in charge of running and delivering the goods or service. 
This summer we supported Jeanette van Os, a Dutch doctor who runs the Billy Rhiordian Clinc in Cape Maclear. She does a fantastic job working very hard to improve and help the local women and their children.

Jeanette has a small initiative called Mother and Child - very small scale, just operating in Cape Maclear and she is supported by a few friends and family who raise fund in Holland but is struggling to keep things going. Basically she provides funds to go beyond what the clinc will do (medically) for example - if pregant women are having a difficult labour she provides transport money for them to go to Monkey bay.  She has a feeding programme for malnourished under 5's, pays for milk for women who are unable to breast feed or have HIV so should not be breast feeding, and pays for vulnerable children who she suspects are HIV positive (but they cannot test for in the village) to be tested and their blood samples to be sent to Lilongwe for testing so they can be put on ARV (AIDS treatments) sooner.

She also does some work with other sectors in terms of enabling people to go and have bigger operations in other hospitals (if they need to travel to zomba / liwonde she provides travel coupons which the minibus drivers then recoup direct from her (hence more accountable). Also for older members if they need carer-act operations which they cannot do locally.
You can find more info on http://jeannette.tremele.nl/eng/index.htm