Since schools were closed on Mandela Day, July 18, St Peter’s preparatory schools celebrated the illustrious day with a number of activities on August 6.
The senior boys, girls and staff made Love Soup in which R67 was donated by each of them for the ingredients.
Two soup packets were made by each boy, with one to be donated to the St Peter’s Community Service partners and the other to a community member in their area.
Diane Fraser of the prep schools said the boys and girls of the junior prep schools and the pre-prep learners also got in the action of the morning’s events with their own activity.
“The children created a long train of ‘cereal dominoes’. The domino effect is produced when one event sets off a chain of events. In this case, the dominoes were cereal boxes. “The ongoing impact of this domino effect is that these boxes of cereals are being donated to orphanages and homes for infants and young children, which in turn will allow these young children to wake up to a nutritious breakfast and full tummies for the morning,” she said.
Each child contributed R67 for the purchase of the cereal boxes, and it was estimated the set-up of the cereal dominoes would take 67 minutes. Fraser said she hopes that more than 67 children would be fed through this initiative.
Learners had also gathered near the St Peter’s Madiba Tree that was planted by the school’s chapel in remembrance of the former president in 2014, for special Mandela prayers.
“As Nelson Mandela said, ‘What counts in life is not the fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine our significance’.”
Fraser concluded, “We believe we have made a difference to a number of lives this Mandela Day – and that the domino effect that Nelson Mandela had on South African history will remain in our hearts and memories for eternity.”
