Hugely entertaining Gardener Breakfast
Fashion designer and Sunflower Fund ambassador, Karen Monk-Klijnstra was the morning's delightful compere.
FANS of all things flora were treated to a meaningful morning of fun, food and edutainment at the Annual Gardener Breakfast in support of The Sunflower Fund at the Kloof Country Club recently.
Established corporates, Mpact Recycling and CC&A Insurance, again lent their support by financial backing this eagerly anticipated event.
Keynote speaker, Tanya Visser, owner and editor of The Gardener Magazine and host of The Home Channel’s popular show, The Gardener on DSTV, schooled guests on Lessons from the garden – translating into life lessons from triumphs to monumental disasters!
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Tanya’s charismatic, passionate and hilarious presentation was both informative and therapeutic for the mind and soul.
Fashion designer and Sunflower Fund ambassador, Karen Monk-Klijnstra was the morning’s delightful compere and the regional Sunflower Fund team inspired and enlightened guests about their many exciting developments including the organisation’s movement to drive partnerships and donor recruitment throughout Africa to better serve the local patient base and rapidly developing needs of global patients.
“It was an exceptionally proud moment for us on Human Rights’ Day 2018, as we officially became a stem cell registry in addition to being a donor recruitment centre,” said The Sunflower Fund’s PR & Events Specialist, Allison Ekstrand.
“This is a huge milestone for The Sunflower Fund as this is the first registry that is focused on building partnerships and driving donor recruitment throughout Africa.
“May 2019 saw our first donor centres in Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria.”
Funds raised from the event will enable The Sunflower Fund to create awareness and education about blood stem cell donation, recruit more blood stem cell donors, grow the patient support fund and maintain a registry of committed donors.
For more information on The Sunflower Fund or how to register as a blood stem cell donor, visit www.sunflowerfund.org or call toll free 0800 12 10 82.
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