For the past 12 years, Rand Aid’s Thornhill Manor retirement village residents have celebrated Mandela Day by knitting squares – in all colours to celebrate our rainbow nation – which are sewn together by 67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela Day and distributed to those most in need.
This year, the residents gathered in Thornhill Manor’s community centre on 17 July, armed with their knitting needles and balls of wool. Between them, almost 500 squares were knitted.
The ladies had a lovely afternoon chatting and laughing while enjoying tea and biscuits.
Thornhill Manor residents Evelyn Neuhaus, Joan Miller, Bernadette Hunkeler, Barbara Damstra, Luiza Tsakos, Marion Falconer, Audrey Blewitt, Angela Webster, Elaine Weldon and Lorna Turner.
A mascot made by Thornhill resident Priscilla Randall to celebrate the occasion. Thornhill Manor’s Man Cave made the little wheelbarrow to hold the wool and needles.
