NB: The venue has changed for the Durban event: This will now take place at The Dome Court, Pavilion Shopping Centre on March 31 from 09h00 to 13h00.
67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela Day
celebrate their sixth year of knitting the country together in warm displays
around the country by creating Magical
Moments 4 Mandela.
The 67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela’s
Magical Moments will take place on March 31, 2019, where all blankets made this
year will be exhibited and laid out from 09h00 to 13h00, simultaneously at
various venues around the country.
This year’s event will mark a record sixth
year since the campaign was started The event will celebrate all the hard work,
effort and kindness that “KnitWits for Madiba” around South Africa have put
into making their blankets for this worthy cause.
Following the Magical Moments 4 Mandela, the blankets will be distributed to
those in need. This year the blankets will be delivered earlier to ensure that
recipients are kept warm from the first chilly morning to the last late frost.
In Johannesburg, the blankets will be laid
at Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton, at both the Nelson Mandela Statue and the
newly unveiled 1m-tall replica of the Nelson Mandela Statue, which is located
close to the original. The replica is modelled by the original artist and
sculptor Kobus Hattingh and designed specifically to allow the visually
impaired to experience the statue in their own way. For this, 67 Blankets will
be working closely with the Johannesburg Society for Blind.
The other gatherings will take place in
Cape Town, Pringle Bay, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria, Bloemfontein and Durban.
KnitWits and anyone donating blankets to this initiative should hand over their
blankets by March 22 2019 to Ambassadors in the area.
“This responds well to our effort to ensure
that Mandela Day action is taken every day. We are delighted that the 67
Blankets Initiative is collecting blankets early this year in preparation for
the punishing winter”, says Yase Godlo, Mandela Day Manager at the Nelson
Mandela Foundation.
“Such acts of kindness are the reason we are
inspired to do more to impact positively towards people’s lives”, he added.
67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela Day invite
all South Africans to join them on March 31 to celebrate Nelson Mandela.
Supporters are encouraged to bring crocheting, knitting; family and friends. At
10h00 sharp, all Knitwits and friends gathered at the various 67 Blankets for
Nelson Mandela Day sites will sing the National Anthem
“This is the sixth year we will be laying
down our beautifully knitted and crocheted blankets. It is incredible to see
how this movement has galvanised so many people and communities. Each blanket
laid down in these exhibits is a visual reminder of the care and goodwill so
many people from South Africa and around the world have for their fellow men
and women. Stitch by stitch we keep the legacy of Madiba alive, bringing hope,
comfort and warmth to others,” says Carolyn Steyn, founder of the 67 Blankets
initiative.
“We do not wait until Mandela Day in July
to distribute blankets to those in need. We follow the lead from the Nelson
Mandela Foundation to make every day a Mandela Day and respond to the needs of
the people,” she adds.
Magical
Moments 4 Mandela blanket venues for March 31, 2019,
are:
Durban: The Dome Court, Pavilion
Johannesburg: Nelson Mandela Statue, Nelson
Mandela Square & 1M Mandela Statue, Nelson Mandela Square
Cape Town: Chess Road Field in Rondebosch
Port Elizabeth: Hobie Beach, grass patch,
Humewood
Western Cape: Pringle Bay Town Centre
Pretoria: Nelson Mandela Statue at the
Union Buildings
Bloemfontein: Nelson Mandela Statue at
Naval Hill
For more information visit www.67blankets.co.za
or follow on Facebook: 67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela Day South Africa
Partners
of 67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela Day: Nelson Mandela Foundation, Stuttaford
van Lines, Cheeky Media
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