Nelson Mandela celebrates his 93rd birthday today, July 18. To recognize his special day, people all over the world are dedicating 67 minutes – one minute for every year Mr. Mandela worked for human rights – to do work for someone else, either in their communities or for a charity. Today the Daraja girls walked to the nearest village, Naibor, to do a 67-minute garbage clean up for the neighbors.

In Naibor, the girls were joined by students from a nearby primary school and a few adults to pick up plastic, candy wrappers, cloth, papers and even batteries that had become part of the Naibor landscape. In addition to the students hunched over picking up trash, other girls were raking behind acacia trees and sweeping paths clean of debris.

Despite their busy schedule and exams just around the corner, the girls were happy to spend a bit of time off-campus, helping out in their community – Brenda in Form 2 even got to spend some time with family members who live in Naibor.

Please visit the Daraja page on Facebook to see more photos from the clean up.