In honor of Nelson Mandela International Day, the Nelson Mandela Foundation asks that people around the world do a mere sixty-seven minutes of work to better the community in honor of the sixty-seven years of service Mandela has performed for the greater good. The inspiring South African leader turns 93 today.
The Foundation has sixty-seven suggestions of simple things that each person can do to better the world, among which are getting tested for HIV with a partner, reading to someone who can't or helping out at an animal shelter. For working folk, it's hard to dedicate sixty-seven minutes to breathing, let alone helping others. Well, if you have a computer you don't have an excuse.
There are several sites which allow online participation in volunteer work and a list of organizations that welcome that kind of help. Giving a mere thirty minutes to an organization helping them to design a flyer, edit a blog post, providing your business or legal expertise or even just doing some good old fashioned research can make all the difference in the world.
Coyotecommunications.com provides a bevy of organizations and ways to work with those organizations from your computer or smart phone. Onlinevolunteering.org offers similar services providing you with a more permanent way to log and help out. Volunteermatch.org also is an online service that matches you to community service opportunities both on and offline that will better both you and your community.
Some of our favorites include:
http://www.bookshare.org/ This online reading source needs help scanning books and editing uploaded material, and the best part: You can do it from your own home.
http://netmentors.org/ Help eMentor teens who need advice on career choices.
http://www.restoreachild.org/ The group needs some help with video editing. For more information, click here.
So log on and sign up to honor the man that has changed countless lives for the better, and maybe change a few yourselves. Happy Nelson Mandela International Day!
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Take Action! Inspire Change
Can you spare 67 minutes of your time helping others?
On this year’s Mandela Day, people the world over are being asked by the Nelson Mandela Foundation to do just that.
By devoting 67 minutes of your time – one minute for every year of Mr. Mandela’s public service – you can make a small gesture of solidarity with humanity and a step towards a global movement for good.
Join in and donate 67 minutes of your time in serving your local community on Nelson Mandela Day, 18 July 2011.
Here are just a few examples of how you can take action and inspire change:
Make a new friend. Get to know someone from a different cultural background. Only through mutual understanding can we rid our communities of intolerance and xenophobia.
Read to someone who can’t. Visit a local home for the blind and open up a new world for someone else.
Help out at the local animal shelter. Dogs without homes still need a walk and a bit of love.
Help someone get a job. Put together and print a CV for them, or help them with their interview skills.
Many terminally ill people have no one to speak to. Take a little time to have a chat and bring some sunshine into their lives.
Get tested for HIV and encourage your partner to do so too.
Take someone you know, who can’t afford it, to get their eyes tested or their teeth checked.
Donate a wheelchair or guide dog, to someone in need.
Buy a few blankets, or grab the ones you no longer need from home and give them to someone in need.
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You don't have to just volunteer your time today but make the most out of it and volunteer everyday or as much days as you can - remember you never know when that someone in need is going to be you!
Thanks for volunteering!
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