46664 Concert Honors Mandela and Raises Funds
June 26, 2008 – 8:29 am
London’s Hyde Park will be the site of a historic concert tomorrow night in celebration of Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday (which is actually July 18th) and his retirement from running his nonprofit organizations. The concert is a culmination of several events that have taken place over the last couple days raising money and awareness for Mandela’s various charities.
Proceeds from the show benefit Mandela’s 46664 Foundation, which gets its name from his prison number. The idea is to send a message that we can never reduce people mere numbers-we are all human beings and deserve to be treated equally. 46664 is mainly focused on raising awareness for governments and individuals about HIV/AIDS and educating them on how they can help eradicate it; however, they also support several major treatment funds in Africa.
Tomorrow’s event also marks the 20th anniversary of the Free Mandela Concert (also held in London) which demanded the South African government to release the anti-apartheid leader who, at the time, had been imprisoned for nearly thirty years. Two year later he was finally freed, and the rest was history.
-JH
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