This document provides information about hosting a Dinner of Hope event to raise funds for Starfish Greathearts Foundation. It begins by thanking hosts for dining for a cause and bringing life, hope and opportunity to children. It then provides details on registering a fundraising page and sharing the link with guests to collect payments. The document offers various ideas for different types of Dinner of Hope events that could be hosted and provides contact information for the organization.

1. Thank you for dining for a
cause and hosting a
Dinner of Hope
You are helping to bring Life,
Hope and Opportunity to
the children we support
LETS EAT!
CLICK TO BEGIN

2. About Starfish
Starfish builds the capacity of local communities
to better manage health, education and child
protection support programmes for children
orphaned or vulnerable.
We currently support 22 000 children through
45 Community-based organisations
(as at May 2013)

3. FACT # 1
When was Starfish Greathearts
Foundation formed?
The Starfish Greathearts Foundation was
founded in the UK in 2001, by a group of expat South African friends who wanted to make
a difference to the lives of children orphaned
or made vulnerable through the HIV/AIDS
pandemic in South Africa. They started out by
raising funds to make memory bags for
orphans in Kwazulu-Natal. In 2002 two of the
friends, Anthony Farr and Tracey Webster,
returned to South Africa to formally establish
Starfish Greathearts Foundation in South Africa
and registered the Foundation as a section 21
company (2003/002865/08).

4. FACT # 2
How many orphaned children are
there in South Africa?
Approximately 21% of the country’s 18.5
million children are affected by HIV, with over
2 million children left orphaned, with the
number of children with neither a mother nor
father having more than doubled since 2002.
60% of children are living in poverty where the
monthly per capita income is less than R575.
(The South African Child Gauge 2012).

5. FACT # 3
What is Starfish Greathearts
Foundation’s value proposition?
Starfish exists to support children orphaned or
made vulnerable throughout South Africa by
strengthening community-based responses to
provide basic services to the children they
support.
Starfish forms a vital link between donors and
these organisations and aims to mobilise and
inspire a global community to make a
difference … one child at a time.

6. Setting up your
fundraising page
Register as an activist on
http://www.givengain.com/cause/1220/projects/8342/
Once you’ve registered, share this link with
your guests to collect payment

7. Dance while
you cook

9. Get active
Like us and share your pics on our
facebook page.
facebook.com/starfishcharity

10. Corporate
Dinners of Hope
You can host a corporate Dinner of
Hope as your year end function or
for your clients all in the name of
Starfish. These dinners can take on
many forms, email us to find out
more.
CLICK TO
ENLARGE

12. Extreme Dinners
of Hope
Host a dinner in an extraordinary
place, brave the elements and
challenge yourself to find a location
with a difference
CLICK TO
ENLARGE

14. Hungry for more?
Greathearts
Run * walk * swim * cycle
We are searching for the spirit of the
Greatheart, someone who wants go the
extra mile for a cause. Challenge yourself
to raise funds for children left orphaned or
vulnerable. Go to
http://www.givengain.com/cause/1220/projects/8341/
to register or check out our Facebook
page to see how you can use Facebook to
FUNdraise.

15. Hungry for more?
Art Auction
Let your creativity run wild. Invite your
friends and host an art auction. Your
best artwork could be a painting, a
bonsai or even a tower of cupcakes –
your creations are all artworks. Go to
http://www.givengain.com/cause/1220/projects/126
to register.

16. Hungry for more?
Secure my
future
Make a once off or monthly
contribution to help a child believe
in tomorrow. Go to
http://www.givengain.com/cause/1220/projects/8508
/
to register.

17. Contact Us
*facebook.com/starfishcharity
*www.starfishcharity.org
*sainfo@starfishcharity.org