Images of volunteers serving communities around the world in commemoration of Nelson Mandela International Day. For 67 years Nelson Mandela devoted his life to the service of humanity. Every year on 18 July Nelson Mandela's birthday the UN joins a call by the Nelson Mandela Foundation to devote 67 minutes of time to helping others.
Nelson Mandela devoted his life to the service of humanity - as a human rights lawyer, a prisoner of conscience, an international peacemaker and the first democratically elected president of a free South Africa. The United Nations will miss him dearly.