City of Cape Town Executive Mayor, Alderman Patricia de Lille, will be joining City staff members in contributing 67 minutes of their time for Mandela Day on Thursday, 18 July 2013 by donating food items to those less fortunate.
- story-telling at old-age homes, the Athlone School for the Blind, and other community facilities
- hosting soup kitchens
- donating time to clean community facilities
- a workshop from 10:00 to 11:00 at the Khayelitsha CBD Recreation Centre. Activities will include recreation games and crime prevention workshops for the youth. For more information, contact 076 508 3688
- recreation activities and gift hand-out donated by the Cape Town Community Housing Organisation, which will take place at the Haven Night Shelter in Woodlands from 11:00 to 15:00. For more information, contact 079 374 3716
- painting the play equipment at the Tafelsig Park (Olifants Hoek) between 10:00 and 12:00. For more information, contact 084 022 9696
- a magic show and hand-out of donated teddy bears from Cotlands to children at the Kleinvlei Civic Centre from 09:00 to 11:00. For more information, contact 083 246 3760
- entertaining 120 children at the Rewal Centre in Stroebel Street in Ravensmead from 09:00 to 11:00
Environmental Resource Management
The City’s Environmental Resource Management Department is partnering with Touching the Earth Lightly (TEL), the Handspring Theatre Puppet Company and Pick n Pay to celebrate the legacy of Nelson Mandela on 18 July at the Gege Crèche in Langa, which the department adopted two years ago.
TEL has designed a low-cost, fire-resistant, insulated building for the 50 children at the crèche. The structure is also raised off the ground, to be above the ground water flood line during the winter rainfall months. TEL will also install a variety of low-tech, simple vertical food garden systems on the sun-facing walls of the structure. The enclosed, vertical vegetable garden will produce fresh, organic food as additional healthy supplements to their daily diets.
