Annual Report 2010 (4.1MB) - Nelson Mandela Foundation

MANDELA DAY REPORTThe Nelson Mandela Foundation and the VodacomFoundation marked their 10-year anniversaries and theinaugural Mandela Day in 2009 by awarding gifts to twoMandela Day initiatives:• Kaya FM was recognised for enthusiastically promotingthe day on air every day for more than a week and foridentifying and highlighting community initiatives thatpractised “Mandela Day every day”.Buti Manamela hands the Mandela Day Gift of GivingCertificate to Kaya FM’s Greg Maloka; Bob Collymore,Chief Officer of Corporate Affairs, Vodacom, looks on.the Slovoville community outside Roodepoort, as wellas in Dobsonville, Soweto.• In South Africa’s cities of Port Elizabeth, George,Mthatha and East London, supermarket chain Shopritehosted four Mandela Day parties for senior citizens.• The Soroptimist Club of Tshwane delivered foodhampers to Potter’s House, a centre for abused anddestitute women.South African government departments and radio stationsalso participated enthusiastically and gave of their time.Some 300 Department of Health practitioners organisedX-rays and other medical services for people in Mqanduli(Eastern Cape); the Limpopo Housing MEC organisedthe construction of 67 houses for destitute families and theVaal Triangle’s 90.6FM Stereo radio station arranged foreight choirs to perform for the elderly around the region.• The City of Matlosana (North West Province) wasrecognised for its comprehensive Mandela Day initiative,which included highlighting the plight of the physicallydisabled, cleaning disability centres in and around thecity, and providing lunch to some of its citizens.With Mr Mandela’s birthday having been accordedinternational status, it remains for every individual aroundthe world to take up the personal challenge issued by theman himself and show how each one of us can make adifference, not only on July 18, but every day.The Nelson Mandela Foundation and its sister charitieswould like to thank the South African government, theUnited Nations General Assembly, civil society, corporatesand all individuals who participated in making theinaugural Mandela Day a success.Political parties also rose to the challenge, with AfricanNational Congress (ANC) and ANC Youth Leaguemembers conducting a clean-up campaign at theNhlazatshe taxi rank and visiting the Gugulethu Old AgeHome in the Western Cape.The Department of International Relations andCooperation ensured that the message reached globalaudiences by spreading it through South Africa’s foreignmissions. These efforts led to governments and civil societyorganisations adopting Mandela Day.Buti Manamela hands the Mandela Day Gift of GivingCertificate to officials from the City of Matlosana. Fromleft: Bunga Ntsangane, Ernest Ngalo, Rose Thabanchu.22 NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2010