{"id":20359,"date":"2013-06-12T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T02:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/casual-day-makes-every-day-mandela-day\/"},"modified":"2013-06-12T04:00:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T02:00:41","slug":"casual-day-makes-every-day-mandela-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/casual-day-makes-every-day-mandela-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Casual Day makes every day Mandela Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Casual Day project team has challenged all fun-loving South Africans to participate in Mandela Day by raising funds for 67 stickers in 67 minutes on 18 July, 2013 \u2013 and while they are at it, to make every day Mandela Day.<\/p>\n

The over-arching objective of Mandela Day is to inspire individuals to take action to help change the world for the better \u2013 this is what Casual Day beneficiary organisations will be doing on Friday 6 September 2013, but it is never too early to start planning to dress up in the 2013 theme, which is GO BIG!<\/p>\n

\u201cMandela 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,\u201d says Casual Day project leader Celeste Vinassa.<\/p>\n

\u201cTake action; inspire change; make every day a Mandela Day.\u201d 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?<\/p>\n

\u201cThis 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,\u201d says Vinassa.<\/p>\n

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.
\nCasual Day is in its 19th successful year of service to the community of persons with disabilities. \u201cThis year we aim to make a big, if not massive, impact with our Go Big campaign \u2013 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\u2019s big,\u201d says Vinassa.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s social networks, visit www.casualday.co.za<\/p>\n

Leading retail group Edcon, is Casual Day\u2019s principal financial sponsor. Stickers will be available at all Edcon stores, which include the following brands: Edgars, Edgars ACTIVE, Red Square, Boardmans, CNA, Jet, JetMart and LEGIT. Stickers will also be available at Absa, Game stores and DionWired.<\/p>\n

Contact numbers for the Casual Day office in Edenvale.
\nTel: 011 609 7006 Fax: 011 452 6583<\/p>\n

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Author: Andrea Vinassa<\/strong> from TorchMedia<\/a>. Originally distributed by MyPR.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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