StreetSmart South Africa launched its fundraising activities in June 2005 in Cape Town. The initiative is based on the brainchild of two Londoners who started StreetSmart UK in 1998. On request, they gave the go-ahead to Margi Biggs to start a similar project in South Africa. Margi constituted a Board with members that were successful in their businesses and professions and who wanted to contribute to making children’s lives better.