We all enjoy a good meal with friends and family. Sometimes we get together just for fun or to chill out. Depending on our relationships, we often go out of our way to create a memorable experience. We now invite you to spice up your meetups with the brand “Dinner with a Purpose” – a new way of enjoying a meal with friends, colleagues and family while touching and changing a life. It is fun and easy to do. How?
- Select a purpose that speaks to your passion (see proposed list below)
- Be creative on the type of dinner you with to organize – simple, pot-luck, cocktail, 3-Course meal, name it!
- Create a guest list
- Design your invitation card with the purpose well developed (we shall share photos with you to appeal to your guests)
- Indicate the ‘friend-raiser’ or ‘dine-raiser’ price
- Show benefit for attending the dinner
- Hold the dinner and make it fun
- Create a slot for an “e” guest to speak to the dinning community on the “Purpose”
- Send the raised funds to eMentoring Africa to implement the program
- Receive periodical updates on the impact of your support
Benefits:
The following are some of the many benefits you will enjoy by organizing the Dinner with a purpose:
- Feel good for touching a life while having fun bonding with friends and family
- Be listed on the eMentoring Africa website as a Diaspora lead for “Dinner with a Purpose”
Purpose List:
- Sponsor a teenage-mother to go back to school (to complete high school and beyond)
- Sponsor a teenage-mum to purpose an “Alternative Pathway” to acquire skills to make a living and pursuing studies
- Establish a business for teenage-mums to earn a living and assist in finding market linkages for the products
- Invest in young-innovators ideas and be a business-mentor. Have stake in the business for 3 years and recoup your money
- Adopt a School and support the rollout of a mentorship program touching lives of students to increase number of students transitioning to university/colleges
Target Counties for 2018 – 2019:
- Marsabit County
- Kilifi County
- Baringo County
- Nairobi County
- Laikipia County
Kilifi “Dinner with a Purpose” Sponsor
Type of sponsorship:
On 21st April 2018, Jayne sponsored the first Dinner with a Purpose for youth and mentors in Kilifi County. This was during the PASS IT ON Event organized by eMentoring Africa at Pwani University. Jayne has a passion for supporting young mothers who have found themselves on the parenting path, thus temporarily abandoning their education dream. Through the “Dinner with a Purpose” events to be organized in Bonn, Germany, Jayne will raise money to support the Alternatives-Pathway program for the young mothers.
For more details, please contact: ceo@ementoringafrica.or.ke