Starfish Greathearts Foundation

Who we are

Starfish Greathearts Foundation is an international charity responding to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa. Our aim is to empower communities to deliver professional and sustainable services to children made vulnerable or orphaned by the impact of HIV/AIDS. Starfish currently delivers crisis intervention, comprehensive care and development programmes to more than 15,000 children. These vital intervention and development programmes are delivered through partnerships with 31 non-governmental and community based organisations at grassroots level throughout South Africa. Starfish has been instrumental in developing and establishing this coalition of local organisations in order to facilitate a co-ordinated nation-wide holistic response to the needs of children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Starfish is registered as a charity (1093862) and company (4528018) in the United Kingdom and as a non-profit organisation (039-447-NPO), Section 21 Company (2003/002865/08) and Public Benefit Organisation (930008639) in South Africa. Starfish has recently been established as a charity in the United States of America and has a volunteer division in Canada.  Starfish UK currently receives funding from individuals, community and events fundraising, companies, charitable trusts and foundations. Starfish UK has more than 50 active volunteers in the UK and is provided pro bono office space, facilities and supplies by Investec plc, helping us to meet our ethos of maintaining exceptionally low UK costs.