Mandela Day

The International Nelson Mandela Day (English: Nelson Mandela International Day ) is a day of remembrance, which has been declared on the initiative of the United Nations by the General Assembly on 10 November 2009 and aims to encourage humanitarian behavior. The Remembrance Day is celebrated annually since 2010 on 18 July, the birthday of the South African Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela ( 1918-2013 ).

The associated with this day and invite all people includes afford its objectives according to an active personal contribution to the improvement of reprehensible conditions or in the form, decisive assistance in society. The number 67 plays a central role, which, for example, in requesting slogans, such as:

• 67 ways to change the world ( German about: 67 ways to change the world)
• 67 minutes of their Time to help others ( German about 67 minutes of their time to help others )

Is expressed. Nelson Mandela had dedicated the goals of a humane, just and free society in South Africa 67 years of his life. On this day the people are to his life's work in the struggle for peace and a culture of peace in the way appreciate that they take 67 minutes long something along the lines of those objectives.

According to the South African Embassy in Berlin is the " Mandela Day is a call for charitable deeds by and for people around the globe - he calls for, to take responsibility and the world as did Nelson Mandela to improve step by step, . "

In South Africa, the Nelson Mandela Foundation ( Nelson Mandela Foundation), the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund ( Nelson Mandela Children 's Fund ) and the Mandela Rhodes Foundation ( Mandela Rhodes Foundation) contribute to the organization of the commemoration. Although conceived as an international day, this set also appeals to the South African society itself, which is characterized by consequences of the apartheid era.