Posted on October 10, 2011
The GIBS PDBA students hosted a post-Heritage Day celebration on Friday 30th September as a once-off initiative to raise funds for their CSI project for 2011. This year they selected Mama Nelly’s place as their once-off CSI initiative for 2011. In 2000, Mama Nelly began her initiative to provide two meals a day to underprivileged children who are orphaned and/or from disadvantaged backgrounds. Mama Nelly runs her feeding scheme from her home and is supported by the ladies of the community and her two sons.
For Mama Nelly providing a better life to the community’s children is pure fulfillment – to the extent that if she does not get donations for food she contacts her local municipality for a street sweeping job just to put bread on the table for her family and the 100 children she currently supports.
The PDBA's sold supporter strap bands to all groups on campus, staff and faculty and encouraged all to wear their traditional attire to celebrate the diversity and rich multicultural South African heritage. The class arranged the following entertainment: Poetry, a live performance by Float Parade Jazz band, Ubuhle Bemvelo traditional and gumboot dancing, drumming and Lofentse Girls traditional dancing.
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