Five tips to make a real impact on this Mandela Day

We need a new approach for Mandela Day (July 18), which revives the passion to change the world.

Mandela Day is when business units of South Africa and to the charitable next profit organization went to work (NPO), armed with business builders, volunteers, garden tools, paint bucket and lots of good intentions.

Many nonprofit organizations that put a day where the teams of well-intentioned companies are coming on a T hurricane supplies and various loads boots, and then as soon leave as they had come. In addition to a freshly painted wall, the NPO is no better than it was before your arrival - and more often than not, it's a little clean up.

to avoid five things

Here are five things you should not do if you really want to make an impact and leave a legacy, not just for one day a year, but every day:

1. Not only choose NPOs
   Find a NPO that could really enjoy what you do - your product or service or business advice.

   A catering company can easily set up a soup kitchen for the homeless. A computer company can teach disadvantaged how information online educational access children. A cost money again, but both are equally effective.

2. Do not assume
   Painting walls and planting vegetable gardens are popular activities Mandela Day. Many organizations have urgent and immediate needs, however - perhaps some surprise and simplicity.

   Schools, for example, the printer paper can choose painted on a wall. For suppliers of stationery, this is an attempt inexpensive way to make a difference. Ask act according to your selected NPO wish and.

3. Do not neglect planning
   a solid plan of action is needed for the day - especially if you only have 67 free minutes. When the homeless really need a garden - but not the owner of the heart - experts advise on good seeds for the season to sow in order to use the right tools and how to maintain the garden.

   Without proper planning, the protection could be left with a barren patch of sand that does not not give a single carrot. Plan to clean, too. One of the reasons why aid agencies fear Mandela Day chaos in the wake of the left. Keep neat and not leave it clean a mess for someone else.

4. Do not neglect your heritage
   The effort should you put in Mandela Day be turned off once no exercise. to make a real difference for you Ideally, in cooperation with the club, the whole year, year after year - check for your restaurant business makes monthly donations of food.

   It is also a good way to attract millennials. They are a group consciousness that the world wants to make it a better place - that's the kind of passion that you need for your heritage.

5. Not to forget ...
   Mandela Day is not money, balance sheets or checks. It is our ability to use our responsibility and accept to make the world better. Not to mention the positive effects on mental health that volunteering has on your computer.

Think more, work harder and are part of our culture. We owe it to Madiba.

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