Sunflower Fund breakfast raises R17 300
The event raised R17 300 which will be used by The Sunflower Fund to build the South African Bone Marrow Registry.
A HUNDRED and eighty women gathered at the Kloof Country Club for the ninth annual School of Garden Design fundraising breakfast, which raised more than R17 000 on Wednesday 25 June.
Tanya Visser, editor of the Gardener Magazine, was the guest speaker and took the women on a visual and highly entertaining journey through this year’s Chelsea Flower Show. She awarded the prize for the best floral arrangement from recycled materials to Jeanette Stoke and thanked all the women who made such an enormous effort.
After a moving DVD that paid tribute to the kindness, compassion and selflessness of humanity, Stephanie Berry, public relations manager of The Sunflower Fund in Durban encouraged guests to embrace the characteristics of a good Samaritan by becoming bone marrow stem cell donors.
Through the generosity of all present, the event raised R17 300 which will be used by The Sunflower Fund to build the South African Bone Marrow Registry. The more donors on the registry, the more hope children and young adults diagnosed with leukaemia have of finding their 1:100 000 life-saving donor match.
Berry thanked host Lindsay Gray, guest speaker Tanya Visser, DJ Vivian Westergreen, Lemontree Concepts and Plant and Flowers as well as all the prize and goodie bag items sponsors and the staff from the Kloof Country Club for making the morning possible.
To learn more about becoming a bone marrow stem cell donor, visit www.sunflowerfund.org.za or call toll free 0800 12 10 82.
