Mandela Day and Education

We will donate books to students, visits schools, mix with teachers and parents and let them know the immense value of taking care of the children, for they are one of God’s most precious gifts to us the human race. 

We will also like to say that we believe absolutely in Mandela, his vision for the world and his unparalleled dreams for the children of the world.

The children are truly the future of the world and how we handle them today will determine what they shall become tomorrow.

Thanks to Nelson Mandela for positively championing the cause of children and the noble cause of the human race.

MADIBA : THE GREAT NELSON MANDELA

Dedicated to Nelson Mandela, one of the world’s greatest men!

An icon of possibilities

A hero of peace

A pillar of strength

A great hope to many

You’ve inspired millions across the globe

To do great things

With the great life they have been blessed with

And achieve great things

That are uncommon to men

The whites and the blacks

Still love you

Children of the world adore you

The youth’s identify with you

You are too great for mankind to ignore

The world is indeed very blessed

That a great man like you was born

Giant strides you’ve taken

Too many positive things you’ve done

Thanks for your concern for the world

And thanks for the invaluable contributions

You’ve made to the human race

Madiba “The Great Nelson Mandela”

Your great name will never be forgotten

For it is already blessed in heaven and on earth

And it will always be fondly remembered

Even in eternity.

-FRANCIS TITUS KING

CHILDREN OF THE WORLD

Children of the world
Heroes of tomorrow
Legends of the future
Great ones that are destined to take mankind to another level
In them you see a great gift to the world
In them you see the very wonders of creation
In them you see so much greatness
That will shake the world
They are born to make history
And change the cause of the human race in their own time
They are great blessings to us
For they are angels from Heaven
On a mission to do great works on earth
We must all rally around them
To make them grow not only to their full potentials
But to also become giants amongst men

- FRANCIS TITUS KING

THE AFRICAN CHILD

Dedicated to the African children worldwide!

We were once like them
We grew up to become giants
And legends in our own field
But what about them?
What about the African child?
What about our African children?
We must stand by their side
Like a true friend
We must give hope to the hopeless
For with hope they can make it
We must give them love
For our love will bring out the greatness and the best in them
We must reach out and touch their lives positively
For that is one of the greatest reasons for which we came
We must rise up to support and empower them in every way we can
For with this power their rise to greatness can be accelerated
She must become a heroine
He must become a Hero
The African child
The pride of Africa
We must give them a voice
To become not only all they are supposed to be
But to also fulfill their great destinies!

- FRANCIS TITUS KING

DEE EVERGREEN WORLD
Together lets make the world a better place!

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I have been supporting education through my own initiative. I started a an NGO 8 years ago and we provided quality creches, full equipped to previously disadvantaged children.

In addition we train care givers, provide curriculum and lesson plans for the children. We have 4 quality creches, in the process of renovating another 4 and then we support 25 other creches with the training and lesson plans. We source donations of toys and educational equipment etc.

I believe a lot more effort has to go into Early Childhood Development and we could use Mandela Day in the future to assist.

We at siyaJabula siyaKhula will be dedicating the opening of our Saturday Remedial Center at W.D. Oliphants Primary School in Kagiso to Mr Mandela and the Mandela Day initiative.

We are opening the Center at 09:00 on Saturday July 17 and we will be addressing parents and members of the community.

The center is opening to service 40 children in numeracy and literacy and is expected to grow to over 400 in the next few months.

Books will be donated to a library at Kaalfontein Primary in Ebony Park and handed over during visit as well as reading to the kids.

Food will be collected for the vulnerable children at Oliver House until the end of July

Staff are encouraged to donate 67 minutes.

Development Bank of Southern Africa: donated books and cupboards to Kaalfontein Primary School, Ebony Park , Midrand (and visited on July 16 to hand over; read a story).

Raised foodstuff’s for Oliver’s House (vulnerable Children): East Rand: will carry on to end July

encouraged all staff to get involved - including making donations as above.

Gogo Story Tellers and Readers will be reading stories for the children in Pre-School and crèches in and around Daveyton.

Mon-Fri 19-23 July in Daveyton.

Contact Ntokozo on 079 5266 901.

Mbuyisa Makhubu Primary School was called Belle primary school and it is one of the schools that played a significant role in the struggle for better education in SA. It was the first primary school with Emthonjeni Primary to boycott classes in 1976 – in May, 1976.

The school is also a neighbor to Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum and now called on the name of one of the 1976 brave youth that carried Hector Pieterson to the car that took Hector to the clinic in Orlando West.

June 16 Youth Foundation in collaboration with Nelson Mandela Institute shall be donating and reading books to the little children in Mbuyisa Makhubu Primary.

Sun 18-22 July 2010 at Mbuyisa Makhubu Primary School former Belle Primary next to Hector Pieterson Museum in Phefeni/Orlando West.

Contact Muzi Ntshingila on 0835184013 or Mandla Nyeqela on 0723024565.

June 16 Youth Foundation (Inner City Campus) will be cleaning some of the streets of Johannesburg and the related areas and feeding Street kids in the inner City. They also spreading the message against xenophobia.

Sat. 17/07/2010
10:00 – 15:00
Starting at The Carlton Centre through Small Street to the MTN Taxi Rank.

Contact Chichi Richards on 083 966 0627.

Phefeni High School is one of the schools that played a significant role in the struggle for better education in SA. It was the first school to boycott classes in 1976 – in April 28, 1976 and joined by Belle Primary school in Orlando West.

The school is also a neighbor to Nelson Mandela’s house in Soweto.

June 16 Youth Foundation shall be cleaning and greening this school on Sunday 18/07/2010 through their project called “Reclaiming Our Schools” and through “My Kasi, My School My History”

Contact Muzi Ntshingila 0835184013 or Mandla 0723024565.

Sun 18/07/2010
08:00 – 13:00
Phefeni High School in Vilakazi Street in Orlando West

The University of Fort Hare, the Nelson Mandela Institute and the Nkonkobe Municipality on July 24, 2010 will be:

Cleaning and refurbishing the Alice Primere Skool as well as planting of a garden.

Reading and story-telling at the Victoria Memorial Hospital children’s ward.

Clean-up and awareness campaign in Hillcrest, Golf Course and the Alice CBD

On July 29, 2010: Inaugural Andy Gilbert Memorial Lecture delivered by the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, Mr. Gugile Nkwinti.

July 31, 2010: Donating toys and educational material to Children’s homes.

National Heritage Council proposes to celebrate Mandela Day through a commemorative National Discourse: Intergenerational Dialogue.

An environment conducive for extensive discussion will be created by the NHC in partnership with Freedom Park and the Department of Arts and Culture to bring a diverse group of young people to have conversations with the elders and to start a youth discourse around the meaning of Nelson Mandela from their perspective.

Equal Education (EE) has organised drop-off points around South Africa where great-quality children’s books can be donated on July 18, 2010.

All the donated books will be covered with plastic, catalogues, arranged into library collections and placed in schools with a member of staff trained to run the library.

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City Year will be visiting an old age home and carrying out clean up activities in Johannesburg on Friday 16 July.

Contact Lntuli@cityyear.org for more information.

READ staff are going to three creches in Kwa Thema township on Friday July 16, where we will spend time with the children, and give them the toys the Read staff have made or donated.

Over the last two weeks READ staff have been making home made toys, hemming fabric, sewing curtains, to help furnish the creches we will visit on Friday. We have also collected donations from staff, to buy toys and fruit for the children of those creches.

READ will be implementing a new Early Childhood Development intervention in this area soon and these children (all 300 of them) will be part of that project.

The ECD intervention aims to train caregivers so that they can assist the children in their care with child developmental work. This means they will be helping the children become school ready. ECD is a pivotal part of every child’s development.

We will be leaving from the REAd Head Office at no 4 Handel Road Ormonde, at 12.00 on Friday and returning at 4.00. Anyone who wishes to come with us please call Katy on 011 496 3322. Donations of towels, linen, blankets and carpets would be appreciated.