The Angel Network organisation prepares for the project, Hearts Build Homes

Mandela Day is appropriately timed in the dead of winter when people are in desperate need of assistance.

The Angel Network and Fingertips of Africa, in collaboration with DP World Wanderers Stadium, will seek to construct 100 temporary homes for those displaced by fires, flooding, and poverty.

“With over 800 expected guests [on Nelson Mandela Day], volunteers will go a long way in helping to make the day run smoothly. Many will also help make sandwiches and offer support to the organisers and the corporate teams,” said a member, Glynne Wolman. The project is called Hearts Build Homes.
The Angel Network is run solely via the power of social media.

The non-profit supplies homeless people with sleeping bags, pillows, blankets and porridge annually, and also donate scarves, beanies, gloves and blankets to orphaned and vulnerable children. They have branches in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and fundraising arms in Australia and the United States of America.

“We receive no government funding and rely purely on donations. During Covid-19 we supplied well over 15 million meals across all nine provinces,” added Wolman.

The organisation has successfully collected more than 6 700 tins of food in the past year and hopes to make this year the biggest and best Mandela Day yet. The organisation would love corporates to get involved and they can email them at glynne@theangelnetwork.co.za

The Nelson Mandela Foundation said the celebration of this day aimed to serve as a global call to action for people to ‘recognise’ their power to make an imprint and help change the world around them for the better.

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