MANDELA DAY BY JESSIE TAYLOR
Working towards a food secure world
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ur society is faced with a number of crises, and among the most pressing are climate change and increasing levels of poverty and inequality. It is these challenges that the Nelson Mandela Foundation looks to tackle this Nelson Mandela International Day with a call to action towards sustainability and equality. The theme for this year’s Nelson Mandela International Day is “Climate, Food and Solidarity”. This year, on 18 July, Nelson Mandela would have celebrated his 105th birthday, and to honour his memory, the Nelson Mandela Foundation is embarking on long-term and sustainable interventions which equip communities to take climate action that ensures food security and thus alleviate poverty and inequality. “We need to ask ourselves if we are living up to the legacy Nelson Mandela has left us,” the Foundation said in a statement. “This year, the Mandela Day and Outreach programme wishes to reignite the global reach of Nelson Mandela International Day through global partnerships that will host tree planting and the capacitation of home-based and community food gardens around the world.”
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