Cape Town’s “Pink Lady” is once again poised to host the heart of Cape Town’s vibrant social scene with the inception of their “Madhatter's Tea” on 14 October 2005. In association with exclusive French Champagne House, Veuve Clicquot and sophisticated fashion boutique, Habits, tickets are priced at R150 per person with 25% guaranteed to go directly to wholly charitable “The Mothers' Programmes/Mothers-2-Mothers-2-Be.”
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The Mothers' programmes work to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV and help mothers with HIV stay healthy to raise their children. The Mothers' Programmes/M2M2B was started in one Cape Town location only two years ago by Dr M. Besser of Groote Schuur hospital. There are now over 90 projects throughout South Africa and programmes in other affected African nations from Ethiopia to Botswana. The key to the acceptance of the programme lies with its unique and amazingly simple approach: HIV-infected mothers who have recently given birth return to maternity clinics as “mentor mothers” to educate, counsel and support newly diagnosed HIV-infected pregnant women. The mentors receive extensive training and they become powerful advocates, providing HIV counseling and education, promoting economic independence, and working to destigmatise HIV infection in families and communities.
The speaker and guest of honor will be one of the programme co-coordinators from The Mothers' Programmes, who joined M2M2B as a client, went on to become a Mentor Mother, and now runs one of the programme’s largest sites.
Madhatter The theme of this glamorous event is a “Madhatter's Tea with a touch of yellow spring”, giving its guests the opportunity to truly get creative as they get into the “hat” of things. Each guest will receive a glass of champagne on arrival, to be enjoyed with the Mount Nelson Hotel’s internationally acclaimed, “Best Tea in the world”, prepared by executive chef, Steven Templeton.
Fashion guru, Jenny Le Roux of Habits, will create one uniquely exquisite hat, to be auctioned in aid of M2M2B on the day. Extra funds for the charity will also be raised with an auction for a stylish Veuve Clicquot Travel bag made by Louis Vuitton (inclusive of a bottle of Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label and two special Champagne glasses) and a night for two at the Nellie. There will also be a competition for the best hat, with first prize being an afternoon tea for two and second prize, a bottle of Veuve Clicquot Brut Yellow Label with its high fashion ice jacket.
Tickets are available from the Mount Nelson Hotel’s Signature Boutique, Habits Boutique in Claremont or can be organised via the Mount Nelson Hotel’s reservations number (021) 483 1000 or email: reservations@mountnelson.co.za. For more information on the Mad Hatter's Tea please contact Antonia Labia PR Executive, Mount Nelson Hotel on (021) 483 1925
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