Singer Jarrad Ricketts will be spending his Mandela Day headlining a concert in honour of the fallen anti-apartheid icon.
At the beginning of the month, LEAP Science and Maths Schools, together with the Global Teachers Institute, launched an online Mandela Day Campaign with a benefit concert planned for Saturday, 18 July.
The campaign is to help feed the children of Cape Town’s most vulnerable communities.
LEAP’s Fundraiser & Administration Support Nicole Fisher says the organisation is made up of school kids who volunteer to do good in the community.
“We have students who visit disability homes, ECD’s and old age homes. They go out and volunteer by cleaning, feeding disabled kids and reading stories to the vulnerable,” says Fisher.
She says the idea for the fundraiser was inspired by Nelson Mandela Day and to feed people in areas such as Phillippi, Delft, Crossroads and Langa.
“Due to Covid-19, we had to come up with a different way of doing things, we decided that nothing was going to stop us from our end goal of feeding those in need, that’s how the online campaign was conceived on www.mandeladay2020.org,” says Fisher.
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The benefit concert will be streamed online and starts at 1pm.
SAMA Award nominee Jarrad Ricketts says he is excited to be a part of the fundraiser.
“I’ve been involved with LEAP since 2016. I’m excited to be a part of this concert because we get to celebrate Nelson Mandela,” he says.
“I never met Nelson Mandela, but I’m a part of the first-ever virtual concert in his name.”