Commemoration of Nelson Mandela’s 106th Birthday

AT GANDHI-KING MEMORIAL PLAZA: 10:30 TO 11:00
Commemoration Service
Songs by School Choirs from Delhi NCR

AT C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM: 11:15 TO 12:15
Mandela Katha Mala

“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.” ― Nelson Mandela, in his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom 
 
Message from the UN Secretary General António Guterres to be read by Mr. Darrin Farrant, Director, United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan

Speakers: Mr. Cedrick C. Crowley, Acting High Commissioner, South African High Commission; and Shri Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies and Trustee, IIC

Interactive session with students of schools from Delhi NCR

Foyer outside the Auditorium
Madiba and His Struggle
An exhibition of paintings by students of Bluebells School International 

Organised as part of Taking Gandhi to Children series that brings children closer to the enduring legacy of Gandhi’s non-violent struggle for equity, justice, pluralism and sustainable development

(Collaboration: Gandhi Yuva Baradari; United Nations Information Centre; and Working Group on Alternative Strategies)