We have collected books for the children in our pediatric Unit. Volunteers enjoyed reading to the children and they have also received Netcare branded teddy bears.

My family and I will be making soup and bread.We will hand it out it out to homeless people in our area.

So my Nelson Mandela Day 2010 just reconfirmed that being a South African is something to be proud of.

If not for the beautiful flag, the expressive colours and the coming together of different cultures, then definitely because I was blessed enough and able to take part in 67 minutes dedicated to doing good!

Firstly, I went down to Innes Free Park, Sandton, registered myself, bought a t-shirt, got some water and hopped onto a bus which made it’s way to a High School in Diepsloot.

When we got there we hung around for a few minutes while the previous group finished up but got to work immediately after that.

We had the option of painting, gardening, or cleaning.

I went for cleaning, naturally.

The school desks were filled with writing so we had to sand them down and make them beautiful again, so for the next 67 minutes I stood sanding, completing 6 desks, a job well done.

I felt good, I had done my deed.

Even a little mini got involved, she was about 4 years old, and she sat sanding with us! It was too cute.

So my deed was done, or was it?

On my way home last night it was about 17h50 and I drove past SuperSpar at Retail Crossing so I had thought and followed it.

I went into Spar, spoke to the Manager and arranged to pack packets for the next 67 minutes while the lady I took over from got to chill.

The ladies I met that work there were all so amazing and couldn’t believe I was doing this (They thought I was a celebrity).

Something happened that made everything worth it, although it wasn’t a good experience, it was necessary to experience.

I was packing the bags and the paying customer didn’t have enough money, so we had to go through her bags and start unpacking certain items.

I stood there and my heart just sank, her hands were shaking and she was so embarrassed, everything she had bought were absolute necessities, the only “luxury” item was a small packet of Nik-Naks.

I asked her how much she was short because I could see that this lady genuinely needed this, and thought I’d even use my last money and pay for her but it came to R 600.00 and that was a bit too much.

Right then I realised that no-matter what situation you’re faced with, there are other people out there fighting the same battle.

And no one person is better than the next.

I also learnt that the lady packing your packets is equally as human as you are; they too have beautiful hearts and are just trying to make it in life.

They may not be overly qualified, however, they’re doing their bit, and you need to take a step back, appreciate them and ask yourself if you’d ever want to do that, exactly, and nor do they, trust me, but they’re willing to do anything to contribute.

Thank you, Tata Mandela, for having a birthday and for inspiring me to give a little.

Thank you for inspiring me to take the time and stand in someone else’s shoes.

And thank you, Tata, for inspiring me to be a better person, if only in my heart.

(I am only able to upload 1 photo so I’ve chosen this one, however I have others where I’m in action doing my above-mentioned 67 minutes)

Ebuhleni cares community in Ivory park, will be donating money, food, clothes for our comminity orphans and senior citizens. so if you would like to help please do so, it will be highly appreciated.

Firstly on behalf of the staff at the Metropolitan Trading Company (Pty) LTD (CoJ) - a very happy Birthday for yesterday - the staff donated money to buy books for an orphanage and we collected R1650.00.

All the best in the future.
Regards
Lindy-lou Munn
P/A Communications & Marketing
lindym@metrotrading.co.za

I am an educator. At our school we have three care-takers who cannot afford to experience the simple luxuries of life.

The staff got together to organise a day out for these three special people by sending them to watch a movie of their choice and lunch at the Suncoast casino and entertainment world. This experience is going to leave a good feeling and their joy is priceless :}

Umkhombe Bulk Bag is proud to be associated with the Emasithadane Childrens project in Nyanga, Western Cape.

Umkhombe Bulk Bags Management will take the 39 children on a day out to see our beautiful Cape Town stadium, enjoy the beauty of the Mother City and then visit the Two Oceans Aquarium.

Good day,

I opened a page on Facebook for french speakers to commemorate Mandela Day in our own way.

What I did with a friend is that we sent invitations to suggest the page to friends and who are still promoting the page to other unknown people. We actually have 78 people on the page as we’re speaking.

As Nelson Mandela stated that everyone should “make an impint”, I thought it was worth it to open a page where people will come and share their thoughts and wishes in french, even though they do not know how to speak English and the fact of the matter is that they know every single thing about Nelson Mandela.

The purpose of the event is that we are celebrating his birthday on July 18 2010, and from the 18 to 25 July 2010, we will be celebrating our Mandela Day in our way on Facebook. We will take 67min or more and share 8 status messages on our wall all together for us to show him our gratitude, our respect and make a difference.

I am also a Redactor-in-Chief of Tropics Magazine, an e-magazine. The project with the magazine is that we’ll be visiting an orphanage tomorrow afternoon and I am already excited to meet those children….The 2nd edition of Mandela Day is just a blessing for all. I have took place to the Nelson Mandela gala dinner in Sandton and also interviewed Mr Achmat Dangor 2 hours before the fundraising ceremony.

I have Mandela as a role model and would love to meet him even for 2min, I will be so grateful because this is the kind of men our continent needs and I pray every day that each one of us just take one of his values to make our world much better. Inch’allah!

We are so happy, us Africans around the world, to have our own African hero. It is just a blessing. We love Madiba and wish him so many good things.

Halala Madibaaaaaaaaaaa!

Venicia GUINOT
Redactor-in-Chief
Tropics Magazine
Cell: +(27) 079 967 3433
www.tropicsmagazine.ning.com
Johannesburg, SA

These are the events we’ve got planned for July 18; what a great way to spend a Sunday; with friends, meeting many like-hearted people and making someone’s day:

Cheesekids for Humanity has organised 8 events in Johannesburg and 1 in Cape Town including:
  * Building a house in Orange Farm
  * Caring for the aged in Alexandra township
  * Cleaning an orphanage in Thembisa
  * Giving vocational and personal guidance to pupils in Soweto
  * Painting an orphanage in Berea
  * Cleaning, painting and gardening at schools in Diepsloot and Soweto
  * Play day in the park with dozens of children from different homes
  * A clothes and food collection drive to UCT

The Johannesburg meeting point is Innes Free Park in Sandton from which shuttles will take volunteers to their respective events.

Registration opens at 8am and closes at 12pm.

Happy Mandela Day all!

VREDE - 1.CLEANING BOPHELONG CLINIC
        2.CLEANING VREDE PUBLIC SCHOOL
        3.CLEANING KALI DAY CARE
        4.ANCYL WILL BE DONATING BLANKETS FOR ELDERS
        5. BASETSANA MAHLANGU WILL BE CLEANING HER SILONDOKUHLE CRECHE
        6.TUMI MOTAUNG WILL BE CLEANING HIS GOLDEN ACADEMY SCHOOL

WARDEN - 1.CLEANING OF THUSA BOPHELO CLINIC
          2.MAINTENANCE OF EZENZELENI STREET
          3. CLEANING THE HOUSE OF MR MAHLABA WHO WAS BORN IN 1912

MEMEL - 1.CLEANING OF ESIZIBENI SECONDARY SCHOOL
        2. MASS PRAYER MEETING AT ZAMANI COMMUNITY HALL

In the absence of the knowledge of our human rights, they can be violated.

So, visit the following address, anytime after 1:00 pm and get an audio-visual presentation about human right, what are they? How many are they?

How these all started, get the story of of human right.

L. Ron Hubbard House
40, Hannaben St.,
Cyrildene.
JHB
2198

Call Puneet on 011 616 0457 / 073 505 9832 to get directions or any questions that you may have.

First happy birthday Madiba Mandela.

We will be planting 5,000 trees on Sacho/Tenges Division and clean the dispensaries and hospitals.

This is a way of alleviating poverty from our community and uniting the youth on the importance of environment conservation.

Since we are scholars from the university in our community, we will advise others to work hard to achieve their desired goals in life.

We will provide T-shirt and certificates of participation with a brand “Mandela’s 91st birthday with trees for love”.

We will be praying, cleaning, cooking and decorating the places for children and their caretakers. It will benefit the children and their caretakers.

Every Sunday I cook a Sunday lunch for my boyfriend and I. I don’t go out much because I have a baby and I decided that on Mandela Day I will cook a meal for David who is the gardener where I live. He has a wife and 2 sons and I’m sure they will be happy because I know that I myself would feel more than good inside to do this small deed.

We will be asking people to volunteer to be campaigners in support of development, democracy, rights and justice for southern Africa.

Those who volunteer and hopefully the people of southern Africa will benefit as solidarity is built and deepened.

We will be screening 200 learners from Delft South Primary for vision and eye care related problems. Our medical students will assist in this programme as well as volunteers from ACODLTI, CPUT and UWC. All learners that need further examination and spectacles will receive free eye testing and free spectacles from Dannenberg Optometrist.

In commemoration of Nelson Mandela Day on Sunday, 18 July 2010, Xl will be giving its 67 minutes to the Books Without Borders project.

So, if you want to get into the spirit of the day and don’t have some place to volunteer your 67 minutes, we could certainly accommodate you as we begin cataloguing the books we have received to date.

On 27 July 2010 our students will be screening 100 learners for vision and eye-care related problems.
Learners from Bruckner De Villiers Primary School in Stellenbosch will be screened. If learners need a further examination or spectacles, Dannenberg Optometrist will offer them for free.

I will be praying, cleaning, cooking and decorating the places for children and their caretakers. The nation will benefit in the future

Children will enjoy free entry to the Taalmonument in Paarl this coming Sunday in celebration of Nelson Mandela Day.

A group of 128 children from the Andrew Murray Children’s Home in Wellington will enjoy a visit to the monument with bus transport sponsored by the monument’s Sponsor a Bus project.

Visitors to the monument will each receive a pamphlet with the poem “Die Kind”, by Afrikaans poet Ingrid Jonker, as well as the English, isiXhosa and German translations. Nelson Mandela read this poem in Afrikaans, during his address at the opening of South Africa’s first democratically elected parliament on May 24, 1994.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation describes Mandela Day as a call to action for people everywhere to take responsibility for making the world a better place, one small step at a time, just as Nelson Mandela did.

Nelson Mandela spent more than 67 years serving his community, his country, and the world at large. On Mandela Day, declared as an international day by the United Nations last year, people are called to devote just 67 minutes of their time to changing the world for the better, in a small gesture of solidarity with humanity, and in a small step towards a continuous, global movement for good.

The Taalmonument is thus inviting the community to bring children, who may never before have had the opportunity to visit this icon of South Africa’s rainbow language, for a free outing to the monument on Sunday. The gardens around the monument are perfect for a picnic and include a play area for children.

Visitors are welcome to bring their own picnic baskets or they can order a picnic basket from or fires are allowed. Safe parking is available and access is controlled. Entrance fees at the gate are R12 for adults and R5 for students and no bookings are required.

The Taalmonument’s official guide will be available to present free guided tours. The monument and Volksmond Coffee Shop will be open from 08:00 to 17:00. For more information about events at the Taalmuseum or Taalmonument, call 021 872 3441 or visit www.taalmonument.co.za.

Adopting the provisions of the Social Assistance Act no. 13 of 2004. In particular, regulation 26(2)i, on Undue Hardship, where refusal of Social of Relief of Distress in terms of Reg.26(1) may, in the opinion of the Director General, cause undue hardship, assistance may in exceptional circumstances be rendered (Reg.26(3)).

Nonetheless, we would attempt this informally, to alleviate any potential clashes with the law and to carefully win the confidence of those who resides under the bridge on the N1 to Cape Town. Primarily is to acquire their data and link it into government systems for screening, thereby expose them to a variety of government services. Most importantly we would like to break the mushrooming of marginalized communities and to attempt to win the lost skills and expertise of those living in such conditions of undue hardship.

All PricewaterhouseCooper regions nationally, will be painting part of a school in their region.

100 volunteers from Gauteng will be painting a block of classrooms at Diepsloot Combined.

Lovelife staff have planned to visit an organisation named Young Mothers Empowered in Alexandra. The objective is to interact with the members and conduct a career development workshop and motivation as part of the Make Your Move campaign.

The children will be entertained through fun activities and given party packs for the day. The members will also be given T-shirts and other donations from volunteers will will be part of this day.

SA Express Airways will be playing soccer with Twilight Children’s Home on the afternoon of 16 July 2010. The airline will also donate blankets to the children and sign up as many of its employees onto the educational initiative, 1Goal.

Clean up the litter at the local park in Comet, Boksburg (East Rand).
Local community use the park - Children’s playground, football games, walking dogs.

Aganang Mayor Cllr Mmanoko Masehela will build a two-roomed house for Ms Christina Mabe in Ga-Mahoai, Matlala area where Dada Jedwood Hardware has donated building material. Local bricklayers/labourers will donate their time and skills joined by Aganang Councillors, Officials and Community at large (Letsema) from 09h00.

Ms Mabe’s house was destroyed by storms and she is currently staying in a tent donated by the Capricorn District Municipality.

The Mayor will later (14h00) join Community Development Workers (CDW) to visit the family of the deceased (May 2010) CDW Ms Winnie Ratau in Moletjie Ga Mabitsela, where they will donate groceries to her children.

The South African Embassy in Manila, Philippines has teamed up with Efren Peniflorida, 2009 CNN Volunteer Hero of the Year and his Dynamic Teen Company through its Novaliches Project in Quezon City, Manila to honour Nelson Mandela Day. On 17 July 2010, Embassy staff, sponsors and volunteers of Efren’s Dynamic Teen Company (DTC) will get together at the Quezon City Polytechnic University to make a difference in the lives of 92 children from underserved communities in the area. Why 92? Well, it will be former South African President Nelson Mandela’s 92nd birthday on 18 July this year and there can be no better way to honour his legacy. In the words of Nelson Mandela himself: “We have a duty to create a conductive environment; and to provide the necessary tools and the mechanisms to support people in their endeavours to better themselves.” We have been so impressed with the work and dedication of Efren Penaflorida and DTC, which offers Filipino youth an alternative to street gangs through education, recreating school settings even in places like dumps and cemeteries, that we offered our services to his project as part of Nelson Mandela Day, starting on 17 July 2010. As was said: “We know that each of us can make a small difference. If we all make a small effort, together our collective effort can truly change the world”. Over 100 books donated by sponsors, nutritional and sanitary packs will be handed out, while homemade sandwiches, South African fruits and juice will be served by us. African storytelling and a football skills workshop, nutritional education will also be part of the programme.
Hugo Lambrechts
Charge d’ affaires a.i.

We will be holding a party for the children living in the home and the other children, including Aids Orphans that are part of the church. We have collected clothes and toys and food for the children and have bought each child a blanket.

Johannesburg Housing Company (JHC), a social housing institution in the inner city of Johannesburg and its subsidiary Makhulong A Matala will be giving a donation to a shelter in Hillbrow.

JHC is also dedicating the entire month of July to goodwill by helping others in small and big ways, in the workplace and communities.

Registering orphans in our database and planning to engage them with social services. Plan to work with Home Base Cares to provide good health. Plan to introduce programmes to education and garden planning.

Visit the Westville Prison to address and motivate the inmates.

Please call Hoosen Essof for more information on 083 313 6208

Cleaning the area, painting the school and the IMA clinic.

Environmental Maintenance & Cleaning.

Hot meals will be provided to needy and homeless people at the Albert Park.

We are seven ladies in Rosendal in the Eastern Free State who have come together to make beautiful handsewn products. We are linked to The Heartfelt Project (www.theheartfeltproject.com) and, although we are all very poor, we understand ubuntu and so we save 5% from any products we sell to give to people who have even less than we do. We have decided to spend this money to honour Tata’s values and legacy by inviting the 20 children who live in child-headed households in our community to lunch on Sunday. We will cook a delicious meal for them, and spend time talking to them, playing with them and giving them a lot of love.

We will dedicate our 67 Minutes with a dialogue with the elders/senior citizens of Soweto in Mofolo and undertake a political tour to the old house of Tata Mandela located in Vilakazi Street with the elders.

Happy birthday Tata Rolihlahla Mandela and keep the spear of love and peace burning.
Halala Tata

Makhulong A Matala and its three Youth Clubs will be cleaning the Othandweni shelter in Hillbrow. A donation from Makhulong and JHC will later be given to the shelter.

Your Happy Place at Sterkinekor Theatres will be screening Toy Story 3D to 92 children. 61 of the children are from Rhema Children’s Village and the other 31 are the children of staff volunteering on the day. Thank you to Sterkinekor Theatres, their staff and Disney for arranging this initiative.

I am appealing to everyone to make donations of clothing, books, toys, shoes etc or give 67 minutes of your time to play with the children (sporting activities) or give a motivational talk or career guidance.

Situated on church grounds in Soweto and run by the church and Salvation Army, the Carl Sithole Centre cares for orphaned children and children abandoned at birth. The Carl Sithole Social Centre addresses the needs of abandoned, HIV-infected children. Since 1993, the Carl Sithole’s team of nurses, social workers and outreach coordinators has mobilized and educated community members to care for and accept HIV/AIDS infected children. The centre also runs a school and training workshops for the benefit of members of the local community, who receive tuition in dressmaking, beadwork and computer literacy.

Venue: Carl Sithole Centre (Orphanage just next to Maponya mall)

Plot 64, Old Potch Road
Klipspruit Ext 2
Soweto
Time 13h00pm
Actvities: Netball/soccer

I truly believe that in serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity.

CWF will be spending the morning at Osizweni. We will be revamping the daycare centre as well as providing teacher training skills based workshops for the staff. Games, facepainting etc for the children has also been arranged.

All children will get to mark their handprints on a huge sheet in commemoration of the day.

All volunteers are asked to bring 1 tray of cupcakes along.

Radio Riverside and the regional Department of Water Affairs will be rolling up their sleeves to clean the school yard of the Cornelious Jansen Primary School in UAP, approximately 10 kilometers outside of Upington and to also refurbish the building of the school. The staff of the station and the department will also provide the 121 learners of this rural school with breakfast, lunch and motivational talk shows. One sponsor also committed to providing computer classes over weekends for the students who have a computer laboratory but no teacher.

Proud to Host is honouring Madiba’s birthday on July 18th.

Since May 2010, 600 unemployed people in Proud to Host have been working hard on Community Work Programme projects to help the communities in Jo’burg.

We wanted to honour Madiba’s birthday and we decided to complete 67 tasks which will help our communities by July 18th.

The group talked about the contribution Mandela made to this country, so that we can be free and we talked about what it means to be free.

To be free means having a voice and being willing to stand up for ourselves.

We talked about all the things which stop us fixing our lives: Fear, shame, false pride, isolation. To be free to live life fully, we have to be willing to put problems on the table and to stop running away from them.

“It starts with you” means addressing problems in our own family’s of lack of communication, of violence, of illness and of poverty. It means dealing with the problems on our doorsteps of grime and crime, corruption and inefficiency. It means having the courage to ask for help especially with problems which are difficult to talk about.

Different people talked about what they could do.

One mother will talk to her son about HIV/AIDs and how he must make sure he does not catch it.

Another has family members who don’t like foreigners, and he says he will talk to them about why xenophobia is wrong and bad for all of us.

A couple say they don’t know their neighbours and that they will knock on the door next to them and introduce themselves.

A number of problems in the streets were mentioned like leaking water pipes, broken drains and damaged pavements. These will be reported with case numbers collected and followed up.

We decided to throw a Proud to Host party which we will all contribute to, to celebrate Madiba’s birthday.

Many ideas were put on the table and we will publish a full list before this week-end.

In the mean-time, if you would like to contribute to all this activity, we need more donations for paint, please, as there are many more walls to rehabilitate.

It is amazing how easy it has been to make significant changes in people’s lives. They have had money to feed their families, money to look after themselves, so that they can keep taking the meds they need to be productive even if they are HIV positive, and a growing understanding of how democracy can only work if we all participate.

We hope that we will be able to carry on this community-building work. There is still a lot to do, and we have just scratched the surface so far!

Will be with children who will benefit from playing scrabble and through learning how to look for words in the dictionary.

Students of Esau Mosedame Primary School (Zone 8) in Seshego will help setting up tyres in the school agriculture project. They will also paint the tyres and assist to clean the school grounds.

We will work with with local volunteers to help establish and enhance the vegetable garden at Rocklands Clinic.

Youth from the community will assisted to start the agriculture project at the clinic and on the 18 July they will be painting the tyres which they utilise for planting spinach.

1. Giving of clothes to the family,
2. Cleaning their house,
3. Sharing a meal with the family.

The SMT will be having an Assembly on Mandela Day (19 July 2010)  and we are asking our learners to donate a jersey to give to less fortunate children at a nearby childrens home and our grade sevens will be reading to these children.

Our parents will be pledge to repair all broken windows at our school and our staff will be donating a grocery item and handing it over to the local church to distribute amongst the poor .

Vision in Sight Trust with the sponsorship of Silverstar Casino and optometrists that are willing to donate their time, will be examining 67 pensioners eyes and supplying them with spectacles.

The Bloemfontein United Congregational Church of Southern Africa will be embarking on a clean-up campaign, donating clothes and books at Tshireletsong Place of Safety for street kids.

As part of our community involvement, we will be taking the church of God to those kids whom the world see as lost, hopeless and having no future, to join the church with the aim of giving them love, dignity and a sense of belonging. We are intending to assist some of this kids with school uniform, for those who are not attending school to be taken back into school.  We hope that our involvement with this centre will go a long way in helping children to realise their dreams. 

We also hope that our involvement will not only end after 67 minutes, but will continue for many years to come.

The Greater Tzaneen Economic Development Agency (GTEDA) Board led by its Chairperson, Mr Peter Maleta and the CEO, Mr Kwena Maphoto in partnership with professionals in the medical and legal fields will be providing free services for 67 minutes to the underprivileged.

The event will take place at Lenyenye Community Hall around Tzaneen. Lets Live the spirit of Nelson Mandela and make everyday a Mandela day by dedicating only 67 minutes of our time to towards making the world a better place to live in.

The MEC for Finance, Mpumalanga Mrs Pinky Phosa, dedicated a week (July 12 to July 18, 2010) towards supporting the needy and the underprivileged. In partnership with Social Development and Home Affairs, registration for ID books and birth certificates to enable these vulnerable groups to register for grants, including registration for grants was made possible.

Her work towards Mandela Day/Week initiative will be concluded when her Executive and Senior Management Team join her from Friday July 16 at Volkrust Community Hall where she will be presenting awards to top 10 students from grades 10-12 from six High Schools.

Her Management Team will give career guidance to the students on scarce skills job opportunities and career exhibitions from various institutions will be hosted. On July 17 the management team will spend a day at Sikhethokuhle Stimulation Centre, where they will spend a day cleaning the premises in preparation for renovation activities to be performed on July 18.

The activities will climax on Sunday July 18 where the MEC and her team will start their day by visiting a child-headed household consisting of eight children (7 girls and 1 boy) between the ages of two years and 18 years where basic necessities will be handed to the children, followed by spending a day at a stimulation centre consisting of 12 disabled children between the ages of 0 and 18 years.

The MEC and her team will after a day’s hard work, treat themselves to a relaxing afternoon celebrating Nelson Mandela’s birthday with the children and the Staff at Khethokuhle Stimulation Centre.

“Lets make everyday a Mandela Day by spending just 67 minutes of our time making a difference in our communities”

We are launching a school library at Lakeside Estate Primary School. This follows on from our previous successful launch of a community shack library in Evaton North on Mandela Day 2009.

This launch involves packing and organising the books that the school library currently has. There will be story-telling, reading sessions and other fun creative activities for learners on 18 July. The CLING will support the library on an ongoing basis until it is fully functioning. 

We will be collecting books from interested individuals and organisations. We would like to paint the aluminium walls of the library and decorate these to provide a warm and creative literacy learning environment for learners.

This will be supported by a cleaning, maintenance and garden campaign in the school organised by district and the municipality. All the learners and educators at the school and the wider community in which the school is located will benefit.

We welcome donations of books and other library and literacy materials, furniture or equipment such as tables, chairs, carpets, display shelves and computer equipment. Please do join us to assist on this Mandela Day if you have the time. 

We would also like to provide refreshments on that day and welcome any assistance with this. 

For more information, contact Mish on 0733580978 or S’thembiso on 0781480153.

The Joint Tactical Headquarters North West (South African National Defence Force) is situated on Nelson Mandela Drive in the outskirts of Mafikeng.

On Friday July 16 2010 members of the unit will clean the road (Nelson Mandela Drive) between our unit entrance and the Leopard Park turn-off by collecting garbage/rubbish along the road.

The communities neighbouring this road as well as motorists travelling between Mafikeng and Botswana will surely appreciate this clean-up activity.

Join the global Mandela Day initiative on July 18, 2010 as a partner with the National Welfare Forum. We are the largest civil society coalition in South Africa, with a national presence and membership of 3000 organisations working in all fields of social service and development from child care, the aged and HIV/AIDS work.

This year, following on our past success we are assisting the Tswelopele Frail Care Centre for the elderly and people with physical and mental disabilities situated in Hillbrow, Johannesburg. There are currently 92 patients (males and females) between the ages of 40 and 82 years. The nursing staff feed, bath and clothe those who cannot take care of themselves. The centre is partly funded by the Department of Social Development but as with most other NGOs, they have experienced funding problems where the staff has sometimes been without salaries and the centre left with limited resources to feed, clothe and care for the residents.

The NWF has decided to help Tswelopele by redecorating their two TV lounges, which serve as the only communal areas for the 92 people living there. These areas are currently very drab with limited furnishings, peeling paint and do not provide any real value to the residents. We want to work with you to develop a warm, welcoming and enriching space for the residents to use to relax, read, watch TV, or listen to the radio. We want to help Tswelopele residents enjoy some of the things we take for granted everyday and your help in this would make a huge difference.

We would like you to consider donations of:
4 x couches, 2 x coffee tables, paint, carports, rugs, heaters and other decorative items.
2 x television sets (the NWF will pay the TV licence cost for 12 months) and any other items that will help to make the two communal areas of Tswelopele Frail Care Centre much warmer and nicer for the people who live there.

To join - send us a message, write on the wall or call Fatima on 0832979726 or Thato on 082 7766 064

Eastwave Radio has initiated a “World Cup winter Wardrobe” Campaign, which started on the kick-off to the world cup (June 11, 2010). Our aim was to accumulate one ton of clothing which ended on the world cup final (July 11, 2010).

We aim to donate 67kg of clothing to 67 families and organisations within Lenasia and surroundings.

We also looking for funding or sponsorship to do outside broadcasts at various community organisations for 67 minutes each so we could highlight the various stakeholders.

The LTO (Library Transformation Officer) with the librarians will conduct a reading in the library for teenagers from the book “Long Walk To Freedom”.

Then we will join the ANC Aukwatowa Branch for the handing over of houses to the Sizamile, Port Nolloth community by the Richtersveld Municipality. We will call on learners from the three local schools to join us in cleaning the Sizamile area as well as going around to local creches to offer our help in tidying their premises for just 67 minutes.

I plan to ask my Facebook friends to make every day a Mandela Day and help me spread the word.

I will be tutoring matric maths to students at an underprivileged school in Lanseria.

The Islamic Medical Association of Johannesburg will be hosting a Nelson Mandela Cataract Camp, which will be taking place on the 16,17,18 and 19 July 2010. 

The closing ceremony - July 19, 2010 at 10:00am at the Nursing Home of the Leratong Hospital. Guest speakers will include the Gauteng Minister of Health and Dr Shabbir Hussain.
We hope to perform 100 cataract operations in commemoration of our former president Nelson Mandela.

The Islamic Medical Association of Johannesburg will be offering free health screening on the July 18, 2010 from 09:00am to 1:00pm at Lehae (Bazakhula Daycare Centre) near the Golden Highway in Gauteng.

The following health checks will be performed:
- BP testing
- Sugar testing
- Weight / BMI
- Dental screening
- Eye testing
- HIV/AIDS Testing and Counselling by the Muslim Aids Programme and Newstart

All the Seniors in Edgemead Bothasig area are invited to come to the Edgemead community hall where I will be giving all seniors free tea and cake.

This event is at 10:00am and people need to phone me to book their place.

Thank you

Steven Taylor
073 168 5202

1. Donating books and three newly painted cupboards to Kaalfontein Primary School in Midrand, to start a library. Books donated by staff members. This school has just received an ablution block from the DBSA and the support will be ongoing.
2. Collecting dry goods from staff members and making food hampers to be donated to the ‘Helping Needy Families’ project in Benoni, East Rand.
3. Staff members will be participating in various community projects of their choosing on Sunday July 18, 2010.

I will be presenting a career talk to the youth of the Roman Catholic Church during the church service in Ga-Rankuwa Zone 3 and also giving parents and guardians some hints on how to support their children and to motivate one another during difficult times.

Thereafter I will be visiting an old age centre in unit 8 to see how we can help with their daily needs, with in cash or in kind. 

Tshwaraganang,a self-help NGO has decided to come to the rescue of a poor family of six in the community of Tshweni near Kimberley.

This family lives in a dilapitated tent and as part of our humanitarian mandate, we will be buying material and lobby community members to volunteer their time in building the family a proper and decent shack. All this will happen on Sunday July 18, 2010 as part of celebrating Mandela day.

Together we can make a difference!

Neo Seleke
Founding Director
Tshwaraganang - together improving lives!

Pageants SA titleholders will be joining Miss Junior South Africa 2009, Courtney Elson at the Pioneer Museum to treat 200 young disadvantaged children between the ages of 7 to 16 to food, entertainment and a party at the Pioneer Museum in Pretoria.  The following title Holders will be present

Miss Junior South Africa 2009, Courtney Elson
Mr Pre Teen Africa 2008, Cullen Elson
Mr Pre Teen South Africa 2010, Tristan Botha
Miss Petite Africa 2008, Monique Theron
Queen of the Universe 2009, Courtney Trubody
Jnr Teen Queen of the Universe 2009, Jasmine Michella
Mrs Africa 2009, Karen True Body
Sir Africa 2009, Andries Du preez

Miss Junior South Africa Courtney Elson, will again be taking up the challenge for Mandela day and will be making a difference in several communities this year on Mandela day July 18 for 67 minutes or more
 
Miss Junior South Africa will begin her 67 Minutes contribution for Mandela day on Saturday July 17, 2010, by arranging for volunteers, including herself, to spend time at the New Beginningz home for abandoned babies.  The home accomodates about 20 abandoned babies, and Miss Junior South Africa, who arranged thousands of rands of donations for this home during the course of this year, will spend time looking after the babies in order to give the house mothers a break.
 
During the morning on July 18 Miss Junior South Africa will join the Pioneer museum to feed 200 disadvantaged children at the Pioneer Museum.  These children will be brought in with buses from the Mamelodi area, entertained and fed with hot dogs, soup and treated to a party. 

Also July 18, 2010 Miss Junior South Africa will visit the Thuto Ku Lesedi Community Creche, another one of her projects, as well as the in Pretoria West, to spend time with the children in these very disadvantaged communities, helping to uplift their circumstances and their school with much needed donations arranged, giving them a party and feeding the senior citizens in the area with Soup and bread. 
 
Over and above this, Miss Junior South Africa has joined forces with Pick n Pay Hypermarket, in Faerie Glen , Pretoria, to raise thousands of packets of soup that will be distributed to less fortunate children in several areas on Mandela Day. 

Miss Junior South Africa looks forward to making a massive difference in the lives of the less fortunate on Mandela day, as she did last year.

During her visit to these communities, Miss Junior South Africa will also be assisting the children to put their hand print and a message on a canvas card for Madiba and this will be delivered to the NMF during the week that follows the celebrations.

Miss Junior South Africa supports the vision of Helping to change the world
Miss Junior South Africa certainly believes that if Each one of us can make a small difference together, our collective effort can truly change the world. sharing Nelson Mandela’s vision of “a better future for all”.
 
Should you require any further information on the projects being covered by Miss Junior South Africa, please feel free to contact me directly on 082 5511375 or email: mrsafrica2006@gmail.com

I’ll be reading a book called Nelson Mandela: The man and the movement by Mary Benson to children with disability in Lebohang Centre in Sebokeng. The book was written during Mr Mandela’s time in prison.

We will be holding a workshop on the constitution and the Bill of Rights, human rights, socio-economic rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, refugee rights, etc

The youth will benefit from this event.

The Office of the Executive Mayor of Merafong City Local Municipality in collaboration with the Fochville & Carletonville Parliamentary Constituency Offices and The MEC for Social Development in Gauteng will be launching the Elder person’s Act as a build up to Nelson Mandela Day by donating 500 blankets to the elderly at Carletonville Civic Centre on July 15, 2010 at 10h00 and cleaning of Legae Ikhaya Old Age Home.

Community Outreach Programme: Setting up a veggie-tunnel (food garden) with new crops for the Ekuhlengeni Psychiatric Hospital to be sustained by the rehabilitated inmates.

I plan to go to the Wolf Squatter Camp to donate food parcels and blankets/clothes to the less privileged.

Join us while distributing Truth About Drugs booklets around Maponya Mall, Soweto between 11am and 3pm.

We are also collecting clothes, stationery, novels, books and shoes for kids cared for by Othandweni in Rockville, Soweto and Beyers Naude High School in Dube, Soweto

We will be inviting 12 school children from the Heideveld High School from the Cape Flat township of Heideveld, to visit Robben Island for free and organise a critical debate on current issues and hope for the future -  for 67 minutes on the Island.

In support of the MEC’s outreach Programmes, the MEC and the Senior Management of the Department will start their day by viisting a child-headed household consisting of eight children (7 girls and 1 boy) between the ages of two years and 18 years, followed by spending a day at a stimulation centre consisting of 12 disabled children between the ages of 0 and 18 years.

Nelson Mandela’s birthday will will be celebrated with the children after activities aimed at renovating the centre performed by the MEC, HOD and Senior Management and the Staff at Khetkuhle Stimulation Centre.

Transnet volunteers willl support the Wildlands Conservation Trust and will plant indigenous trees at a school in Richards Bay. This is an attempt to address environmental concerns.

On Mandela Day the Minister, Susan Shabangu of the Department of Mineral Resources will lead a team of volunteers consisting of her Executive Committee Managers (EXCO) and CEO’s of the State Owned entities under her supervision as well as the Anglo Coal mining company executive committee members.

The plan is to embark on doing voluntary service at Vosloorus Old Age Home on 17 July 2010.

Part of the work will be to also host a lunch and hand over gifts at the Old Age centre in honour of Nelson Mandela Day.

We will be cleaning households for the pensioners and giving out food parcels in Poval and Ethol.

Transnet volunteers will paint five units or cottages out of 10 units that require painting. This will benefit the residents who have mental disabilities. 50 Transnet volunteers will be deployed on site and will start painting the cottages from 9h00 until 15h00. Transnet will further involve the unemployed communities to complete the painting of the remaining five units.

Transnet volunteers will support four community projects and the activities will include:
- Planting of indigenous trees in a school in Richards Bay, KwaZulu Natal Province
- Providing warm blankets and cooking for the vulnerable children in St Helena Bay in the Western Cape Province
- Painting of the home for the mentally disabled and distributing educational toys to the clinic of abused children in Gauteng Province.

Care for Caregivers - we link corporate work parties with three community based caregiving organisations. Masipumele in Delft, Whole World Women Association in Salt River and Tafelsig United AIDS Project in Mitchells Plain. 

Maintenance work is needed at their offices to improve the working conditions of those who care and support others in the community. 70 community caregivers will benefit from this project. They will also receive self-care packs to thank them for their valuable contribution to ubuntu.

We will be handing over a house to an impoverished family in Seodin, Kuruman.

The family is identified by the club.

We are currently finalizing construction.

We are utilising Nelson Mandela’s call to join hands to help communities in need. We will do an hour presentation to our guests to celebrate Mr Mandela’s birthday and the handover of the vegetable seedlings shadehouse which we have developed is our birthday present to Ntate. There will be a cake as well.

The hour is a presentation to explain what has transpired and to hand over the keys of the shade-house to the Waterloo Green Team. It also gives our managers an opportunity to meet the beneficiaries of the project.

At 11h00 on Friday July 16 2010, this department will hand over the keys of the shadehouse to six women in the community of Waterloo.

The shadehouse is a legacy of the 2010 Greening programme of the Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs and Rural Development. The Shadehouse will serve to hold 120 trays of vegetable seedlings. Women will sell the seedlings cheaply to the low income families in the area at 50 cents each. They will generate an income and be the source of top quality seedlings at very low prices for this community of 6000 homes.

These women will also visit each family (300 homes) that has received a fruit tree and an indigenous tree from us and monitor the trees, contact the family and encourage them to plant food gardens.The triple bottom line of people, profit and planet is served in this way because: the women earn a living, the community is able to grow food and they monitor the trees and help the planet.

The shadehouse then serves the following OUTCOMES:

1. To achieve social and economic development while ensuring a protected environment and institutional stability.
2. This provides a context in which people can prosper
3. To improve levels of productive employment,
4. To reduce social problems
5. To enjoy the natural environment.

Currently the financial outlay of R52 000 has created six permanent GREEN JOBS for unemployed women from the disadvantaged community which impacts immediately on 300 families. It also serves in monitoring the 600 trees that were planted earlier by Advisory Services. The monitoring becomes possible at no further cost to the Department.

The Usual Activities
•  Drama
•  Singing/Dance/Speech
•  Games
•  Drawing/Art
•  Competitions

Extras that can be added to the day.
•  Story reading, a great narrative story with lots of humor
•  For the start of the day everybody can be given a bit of history about Mandela and SA
•  Divide children into groups with one member from the youth team on each and teach them a dance style or song, poem or a trick to perform for the rest.

Fun days are meant to be fun but most of all educational!

South African National Blood Service (SANBS) is urging the public to take 67 minutes of their time on Mandela Day (July 18, 2010) as a gesture of goodwill to the community – by donating blood.

As part of giving back to the community on the day, SANBS will adopt the Malaika Orphanage Centre in Hillbrow, Johannesburg. The organisation will give children an array of items, including non-perishable food stuff, clothes and blankets.

The children will also be forming a human blood drop which will be photographed for publicity. This is in line with the WHO initiative for blood services worldwide to form human blood drops to raise awareness for blood donation.

The second event will be held at Brightwater Commons on Sunday July 18 where a blood drive will be held. Plans as follows:

Charities have been invited to exhibit and create awareness for their cause as part of Mandela Day. 
These include: -
o   Sunflower Fund
o   Organ donor Foundation
o   SPCA
o   Paws
o   Little Eden
o   Baby Moses
o   Twighlight Children
o   WESSA (wildlife)
o   Operation Hunger
o   Child Welfare

All the Provinces are putting on special blood drives on the day.

10 second radio adverts will be aired on stations around the country asking the public and donors to use their 67 minutes by donating blood and saving a life.

A press release will also be sent through print and broadcast media.

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Contact 0800 11 9031 for information.

As a community based church, we also heard the call and decided we had to be part of this beautiful day and create undying memories to the community of Diepkloof ext 6 and most importantly the Children of Giyane Primary school, where we’ve occupied their hall for the past 8 years for our Sunday church services. In Celebration of Mandela day and a thank you to the school, the church members will renovate the school and clean the school yard. It will be a family day also celebrating the Arch Lady’s birthday.

We will take a day and go into the field with volunteers from the Kwangcolosi Childrens Fund to participate in making a difference in the children’s lives. We will finish the day with children from the number 19 squatter camp area, in Kranskop where we will donate toys to the children.

Zama Kranskop Constituency Office

We will organise volunteers from the Al-Aqsa High School in Lenasia to help paint tyres and for the general upkeep of the Inkululeku Primary School vegetable garden.

We will organise volunteers from the Johannesburg Muslim School to help repair broken desks at the Igugulethu Primary School, Vlakfontein (near Lenasia).

The pupils will also assist with minor cleanup and repair of other desks and the vegetable garden.

We will organise volunteers from Al-Aqsa school in Lenasia to help plant seeds at our seedling-bank in Finetwown (near Grassmere). The grade 7 pupils will help us in establishing the seedling bank from which we supply and setup community gardens to help empower poor communities.

We will be organising volunteers from the Al-Asr College, Tshwane Muslim School, Pretoria Muslim Trust School in Laudium to help erect two veggie-tunnels at the newly established Dikhumo Lusika Bakery project. The veggie-tunnel will help empower the local community of Winterveld (north of Tshwane).

The official opening of the community based bakery will also be held on the day.

We will be organising volunteers from the Vaal Muslim Women’s Forum and the Roshnee Muslim School to help upkeep and cleanup the council based old age home in Roshnee, near Vereeniging.

There are various activities planned incuding repair and painting of the boundary fence, garden maintainence, etc.

We are planning a picnic in our blue-collar, totally mixed-race neighborhood. There are Hispanics, African-Americans, and European descendants, and we all get along!

The INDIE MEMPHIS Freedom Series is community-hosted films and conversations on topics of freedom.  Our goal is to cultivate cross-cultural compassion by sharing diverse films in diverse locations, and engaging a new public in independent film and global stories of freedom.

The Freedom Series launches July 15-18, 2010, the weekend of Mandela Day, in honor of 20 years since the release of Freedom Activist Nelson Mandela.

All events are free and open to the public, a $5 minimum donation is suggested to benefit the hosting communities.  INDIE MEMPHIS has year-round programming to benefit the community, and encourages attendees to consider purchasing a membership to make great programs like the Freedom Series possible.

In the current political climate in Israel it is not an easy task to speak up against apartheid and racism. There is a de-legitimization campaign against human rights activists, and dissent is suppressed. Furthermore, the state’s discriminatory policies are not directed only against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, but also against Palestinian citizens of Israel, Ethiopian-Jews, working class Mizrahi Jews, African asylum seekers, migrant workers, and others.

For that reason, our event is organized from within these communities and for these communities. Our vision for the event is to create a place in which those who must confront the realities of racism and apartheid daily can come together to be inspired by Mandela’s struggle and vision, while building bridges between communities.

Gauteng North

Employee Solutions
Address
8 Savage Road
Prinshof
Pretoria  
Alfred Kgotlang
082 770 8816

Louisa Cilliers
082 990 1734

From: 8H00
To: 16h00  
20 volunteers

Activities
- Create a recreational space where 140 persons with disabilities could have seating
- Painting and upgrading workspace for wheelchair repair unit
- Shelving for storage

Western Cape

The Haven Night Shelter (District 6)
Address
20 Selkirk Street
Woodstock
Cape Town  
Nailah Kippie
082 997 4674

Merle Bergman
082 992 0804

Joanne Petersen
082 992 3292  

From: 9h00
To: 16h00  
20 volunteers

Activities:

- Planting a vegetable garden
- Tin food
- Refurbishing blankets and beds
- Upgrading the floor vinyl
- General cleaning

Life Center ACFS
Address
776 Syble Street
Zola 3
Soweto  

Surie Stemet
082 997 0233

Melenie Naidoo
082 994 6385  

From: 7h00
To: 1h00  
10 volunteers

Activities:
- Cooking
- Serving children food

Midrand
Service Park New Beginingz

558 Bengal Street
Laudium  

James Stewart
082 990 1395

Melenie Naidoo
082 994 6385
 
From: 9h00
To: 14h00  
10 volunteers
 
Activities:
- Washing and sterilizing bottles
- Preparing meals
- Feeding and Bathing the babies
- Washing and ironing
- Playing with the babies
- Sorting of donations
- Electrical work

Gauteng South
 
Orlando Children’s Home
6514 Mooki Street
Orlando East  

Beverly Horsley
082 990 8114
David Shoko
082 997 2978
082 990 8114
011 282 6028

From: 9h00
To: 15h00  
20 volunteers  

Activities:
- Gardening
-  Window Cleaning
-  Carpentry Repairs
-  Playing games with the children
-  Reading to Toddlers

Mpumalanga
 
Uthando House
Address
Mshadza Trust
Stand No. 74  
Tsakane Ndubane
082 998 3878

Lwandile Booi
082 997 0386
 
From: 09h00
To: 14h00  
15 volunteers
 
Activities:
- Painting of the office and kitchen
- General cleaning of the center
- Planting of flowers and fruit trees
- Fixing the fence

Midrand Corp Park

WSPCCA
Address
70 Edison Crescent
Sunninghill  

Revini Govender
082 997 4733

Melenie Naidoo
082 994 6385
 
From: 08h00
To: 17h00  
15 volunteers  

Activities:
- Create a footpath from patio to back gate
- Erect a vegetable garden

Midrand Techno Park   

Netcare
Address
Netcare Sunninghill Hospital Cnr Witkoppen & Nanyuki Roads Sunninghill  

Florence Netshiokho
082 997 2663

Melenie Naidoo
082 994 6385  

From: 10h00
To: 11h07
5 volunteers

Activities
-Reading to the children

Central Region
 
Netcare
Address
Pelonomi Private Hospital
121 Dr Belcher Road

Heidedal   Steven Swarts
082 990 8498

Lungile Jama
082 994 6454

From: 10h00
To: 11h07
5 volunteers

Activities:
Reading to the children

KZN
 
NOAH
Address
TBA  
Roland Reddy
082 990 8476  

Eastern Cape 

Victoria Hospital (Alice)
Address
Victoria Hospital
Hospital Road
Alice  

Prilene Campher
082 994 1022

Ncamille Toni
082 990 1217

From: 8h00
To: 15h00  
10 volunteers    

Activities:
General cleaning – inside and out
-  Beautifying the children’s play garden
-  Parent the children
-  Play with the children

Limpopo
 
Association for Persons with Disability
Address
P O BOX 601                                              
Polokwane                                        
0700    
   
Johanna Vorster
082 998 9188

Qiniso Nyati
082 992 1462  

From: 9h00
To: 15h00  
20 volunteers  

Activities:
- Manicures for the ladies
- Décor and arranging of tables and chairs
- Serving lunch
- Washing up the dishes
- Handing of goodie bags
- games

In celebration of Mandela Day and in the true spirit of GivenGain, we would like to launch the following campaign for the month of July, to be launched in the first week of July:

To our existing clients:

- We will offer 67 minutes of our time, free of charge, to 18 members of our Cause Community to assist them with creating their own campaigns in celebration of Mandela Day.
- In terms of value our standard rates are R459.95/hour, so quite fortuitously, that equates to roughly R466.64 of value per client.

To the public:

- We would like offer 67 of what we call ‘Seeds’  (90 Day Free Trial Licenses to use GivenGain) to the Non-Profit/Social Enteprise Community with 20 free SMS’s preloaded into their user accounts.
- This also equates to roughly R466.64 of value.

We look forward to inspiring our clients, partners and colleagues to join us!

North Gauteng Mental Health in conjunction with Ditsong: Pioneer Museum of South Africa will have a fun day with 210 orphans and vulnerable Children (OVC) on the July 18, 2010 Nelson Mandela International Day.

The fun day will be for foundation phase learners at Pioneer Museum at Silverton on July 18, 2010. The orphans and vulnerable Children (OVC) are between the ages of six and 14 years, grade 1 to grade 7 learners and live in the informal settlement of Mandela Village, situated in Mamelodi East.

PLANNED PROGRAMME FOR THE DAY
09:00 - Staff starts with preparations
10:00 - Welcome. Divide children into eight groups of about 25 to 27. Provide a breakfast of soup and bread.                                                 
10:30 - rotation of eight activities 15 minutes per activity
12:00 - Break and enjoy something to drink in groups
12:30 -  Back to rotation activities
13:30 - Lunch
14:00 -  Transport arrives to collect children
15:00 - Clean-up and packing away

ACTIVITIES TO BE PRESENTED
Pioneer Museum will have seven guides to present programmes and North Gauteng Mental Health will have 10 Caregivers to assist with the programmes. Face painting, games, mannequin, well water wise, clown, soccer, treasure hunt, feeding of animals and candle making

We will be providing a number of special kids a morning with our special horses and ponies! We currently have 10 kids coming from Noah’s Ark in Muldersdrift and 15 to 20 volunteers who will be donating the use of their horses and equipment to be used on the day.

Riders and “non-riders” alike are more than welcome!

Please contact us for more info.

Venue - Bulithando Park
Time - 09h00
Theme - white cloth hand painter.
I will invite the community for a Jazz Session.
Admission - will be paid.
Procedings will be for the NGO - (DPKT)
Please send me promotional items like T-shirt and more.
Thanks.

I`m planning to host a small concert, as this is going be the first time that I organise something u Tata wethu. I will organise a Nelson Mandela Day drive and the concert will be held at the Bulithando Park in Kwa Thema,Ekurhuleni. I`m thinking of selling tickets and the money will go to the NPO-Disabled People of Kwa Thema (DPKT), a charity of which I am a board member and deputy secretary for the organisation.

I am also hosting a Health Open Day on July 30, 2010 in Kwa Thema.The Theme of this is to help underprivileged people to know their status and to remind them of the importance of taking their medication for any other health conditions.