Celebrate Casual Day

This year Casual Day will be on December 3, which is International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

December 1, 2020

Siphokazi Zama 1 minute read

Casual Day is an awareness and fund-raising campaign benefiting persons with disabilities, led by the National Council of and for Person with Disabilities (NCPD).
Each year South Africans are encouraged to go to work or school dressed differently – dressing up or down in the theme – and to wear the official Casual Day sticker to show their support for persons with disabilities.
This year Casual Day will be held on December 3, which is International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
Persons with disabilities are the hardest hit by the crippling economic and health ramifications of the pandemic, and NGOs nationwide are struggling to keep their doors open in order to support the most vulnerable in society.
This is why it is so important to support participating NGOs and special schools who immediately benefit from every rand raised through sticker donations and official merchandise sales.

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One such organisation that desperately needs support is the Impumelelo Self-Help Centre in Pollak Park.
The centre houses seven disabled residents and conducts outreach programmes in and around Springs.
They have been unable to fund-raise this year due the Covid-19 restrictions and need funds to help pay for the centre’s running costs and staff.
This year’s Casual Day theme is “Side by Side for Equality with Mickey and Friends”.
Nothing we do on our own can ever be as valuable as the things we do together; and this year, the NCPD have collaborated with Disney Africa’s Mickey and Friends Stay True campaign to amplify the call to provide further opportunity, mobilise sustainable change and promote the full inclusion of persons with disabilities.

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How to dress: this year twinning is winning. To participate everyone is invited to pair their fun outfits with family at home, their bestie, their coworkers, partners, and the people who’ve got their back.
Members of the public can buy their stickers from Impumelelo Self-Help Centre, located at 4 Marsabit Street.