Casual Day makes every day Mandela Day

The objective of Mandela Day is to inspire individuals to take action to help change the world for the better. This is what Casual Day beneficiary organisations will do September 6 with the theme of Go Big!

“Mandela Day and Casual Day have this in common: both projects aim to empower communities everywhere. Casual Day seeks to be instrumental in seeing persons with disabilities being included fully in society as interdependent contributors to a better society,” said Casual Day project leader, Ms Celeste Vinassa.

“Take action; inspire change; make every day a Mandela Day,” she said. This is the call to action of Mandela Day and individuals and organisations are free to participate in Mandela Day as they wish. Whether as an individual, community, business, non-governmental organisation (NGO) or a government department, all you have to do on July 18 is donate 67 minutes of your day to doing something good in any way you can. Nelson Mandela gave 67 years of his life to the struggle for social justice. Can you spare 67 minutes of yours to make Casual Day a success?

The Mandela Day campaign urges everyone to give 67 minutes of their time, whether it is supporting a charity or serving a local community.

“This is why we are asking all South Africans to make a special effort to donate their R10 for a Casual Day sticker in honour of Nelson Mandela,” said Ms Vinassa.

Casual Day is the flagship project of the National Council for Persons with Physical Disabilities (NCPPDSA), a public benefit organisation mandated to improve education, accessibility and social inclusion for persons with disabilities. Last year Casual Day raised a record amount of R22.2 million.

Casual Day is in its 19th successful year of service to the community of persons with disabilities. “This year we aim to make a big, if not massive, impact with our Go Big campaign. So whether you wear big hair, big glasses, a big tie, big shoes, or just go big on the number of stickers you wear, anything goes, as long as it’s big,” said Vinassa.
To order marketing material for your Casual Day campaign, to find out what others are doing to prepare to Go Big, and link to Casual Day’s social networks, visit www.gpapd.org.

Leading retail group Edcon, is Casual Day’s principal financial sponsor. Stickers will be available at all Edcon stores, which include the Edgars, Edgars ACTIVE, Red Square, Boardmans, CNA, Jet, JetMart and LEGIT. Stickers will also be available at Absa, Game stores and DionWired.

Contact the Casual Day office in City West on 011 391-4764 or 082 656 6616.