The emphasis of this year’s Nelson Mandela International Day will be on environmentally friendly initiatives, like encouraging community and backyard gardens and planting fruit and indigenous trees.
Everyone who contributes to the campaign on July 18, 2022 is urged by the Nelson Mandela Foundation to “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
The foundation stated on Thursday that “the climate catastrophe is having an impact on the availability, accessibility, utilisation, and price of food, which is predominantly experienced by the most vulnerable among us.”
The Nelson Mandela Foundation is urging people to utilize July 18 to work toward long-term solutions to the climate crisis and food security in light of growing global awareness of the connection of climate change, food security, poverty, and unfairness.
On that day, the organization will work alongside Nelson Mandela University, the Green Development Foundation, and Shoprite in Madiba’s native province of the Eastern Cape.
Transect Walk Conversations
The group and its associates will take part in a dialogue along a transect.
This is a walk through a neighbourhood that is being led by the residents in order to learn firsthand about their struggles and discover the opportunities and resources available to them.
The walk attempts to promote critical dialogue and identify group solutions to the community’s systemic problems.
The inaugural walk will be hosted by Chief Mandela and the Mandela family on Saturday, July 16, in Mvezo, the city where Nelson Mandela was born.
Fruit trees will be planted, community and backyard gardens will be cleaned up, and indigenous knowledge will be shared and promoted, among other things.
On July 18, Nelson Mandela Day, the second part will be held at the Zwide neighbourhood of Gqeberha.
A record drought that has plagued Gqeberha since 2015, according to experts, has been made worse by climate change.
The organization announced that it will donate two boreholes along with its collaborators and take part in weeding, watering, and planting trees and seedlings in the recently established community garden.
Other pursuits
While the main events will take place in the Eastern Cape this year, countless more events are scheduled in more than 166 locations throughout the world.
The first “Mandela Day Houghton Run” will be held in Johannesburg on July 17, 2022, and will be held along the same route that Nelson Mandela used to walk every day.
The foundation has partnered with Discovery Vitality and the corporate community in the area around Houghton Estate.
The 8-kilometer race’s route will pass by some well-known locations, including Madiba’s 12th Street House, the Sanctuary Mandela on 13th Street, and the offices of the Nelson Mandela Foundation on Central Street.
Discovery By using Vitality MoveToGive, Vitality is urging its users to donate their daily Vitality benefits toward purchasing a family a backyard garden starter kit offered by Shoprite.
Following the Mandela Day Houghton Run, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, a five-time Grammy Award winner, will perform a special tribute concert at the Johannesburg Theatre.
Through Ticketpro, you may purchase run tickets.