Celebrating 10 years of African Angels, with our partners Mercedes-Benz South Africa

As our principal and longest standing donor, it was only fitting we celebrated our 10-year anniversary with the team at Mercedes-Benz South Africa; making memories for our African Angels. We were privileged to be joined by the Mercedes-Benz South Africa leadership in Andreas Brand, CEO & Executive Director Manufacturing and Abey Kgotle, Executive Director of Human Resources & Corporate Affairs. They spoke passionately and resolutely of their company’s commitment to education, to African Angels and our shared belief that education changes the futures for our children.

The Mercedes-Benz Learning Academy and IT Hub created an interactive technology showcase for the grade 6 and 7 children with coding, virtual reality and robotics, to expose our older African Angels to new and different career opportunities they have never seen before.

While the Grade 6 and 7’s were making robots work, creating code and exploring the world of virtual reality, the rest of the children were engaged in pre-match soccer drills with the very energetic members of the Mercedes-Benz soccer team.

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The highlight of the day for the children was the singing of the National Anthem, and the inaugural soccer match to be played for the MBSA Anniversary Trophy. With a bit of help from their MBSA team-mates, the African Angels team took the final score to a draw, and the match was decided in African Angels’ favour during a tense penalty shoot-out. 

Each child enjoyed a hamburger and party pack for lunch; they had fun dancing to the music whilst cheering for “Uncle Max” and posing for photos and just like a real birthday party, everyone had cake at the end of the day.  

Check out more of the action in the video prepared by MBSA to celebrate the day.