Good advice from Martha Stewart:

"Planning a dinner party is a lot of fun and being organized makes the process much easier. I like to prepare as much in advance as possible."

Naomi Campbell, White Ribbon Alliance Global Ambassador

"The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood is asking people around the world to wear white and hold a dinner party in March for the 100th year of International Women's Day on the 8th. Please get together with your friends, have some fun and join this global celebration of women and newborns saved and also to remember those lost.

Together women around the world can really show governments and national leaders that we won't be ignored and that all women in every country deserve access to basic healthcare. We can save so many lives by refusing to be ignored. Please Play Your Part to prevent the needless deaths of women and newborns in childbirth."

Featured Dinner Parties

"I held my dinner party on Friday 12th March here in my kitchen in St Leonards on Sea. I am mother to four adult children and grandmother of two and I lived in South Africa for 15 years. I first heard about the campaign at Glastonbury where lots of us sported the Mum tattoo. I signed up for the White Ribbon Alliance newsfeeds and this is how I head about the Global Dinner Party. I invited 12 friends and in the end we were nine on the night and the others are making donations for not coming!

My 22 year old son Roo helped me prepare some of the food and we went for a Meze starter so that everyone would be reaching across the table and getting to know to one another. There were lots of delicious cold dishes - carrots with coriander, beetroot and yoghurt, baked aubergines, anchovies olives with pine nuts and hot pitta breads. We began with a glass of pink champagne. Everyone wore white and most already knew each other or had at least met before the dinner. The atmosphere was lively and I noticed how different it was eating with a group of just women - more relaxed than the usual mixed company and everyone seemed to have a lot to say. There was a very warm atmosphere. The main course was chicken baked with bay leaves, garlic and white wine served with yummy saffron rice and amazing green salad leaves. For desert Lois made her orange and almond cake and I made my Lemon Verbena Ice Cream and afterwards we drank fresh mint tea that Jane had brought from her corner shop in Kensington. After the meal we talked about the reason for the holding event and I have sent everyone the link to the website. They donated generously and I think that I will have £200 to contribute this week. Good luck with the campaign and lets hope that one day soon it will no longer be needed."

-Sally Walton

"I was inspired to hold a dinner party to honour and raise awareness of women who, purely because of the country they were born in, do not have access to the health care that has saved my life, and my children's lives. I am severely asthmatic and have had three very difficult pregnancies resulting in three very premature babies. I was lucky enough to have intensive care units to enable my life to be saved, and for my tiny, fragile babies to be saved as well. My youngest son has a host of health problems, unrelated to his prematurity, and his life is dominated by medical care and treatments, including a small bowel transplant in 2008. It has been hard, it has been stressful and upsetting but he's here because we live in a country with an excellent health care system."

-Sarah Milne

Find out how Sarah's party went here: http://sarahmilne.blogspot.com/