Friday 18 September is Do It Day – a day when South Africans take time out to share their energy and skills with good causes around the country.

Use your heart, head or sweat it out

All you need to do is sign up online for a Do it Day project in your city and arrive on the day. The projects are categorised into ‘heart’, ‘head’ and ‘sweat’ projects. An example of a heart project might be reading to the elderly at a care home in your community; a head project might be using your computer skills to create a database or a website for a local organisation; and sweat projects simply require hard work and vary from fixing a roof to creating food gardens.

There's something for everyone!

The event is organised and hosted by GreaterGood South Africa and proudly sponsored by The Old Mutual Foundation and other associate sponsors. Old Mutual aims to contribute in the mobilisation of ‘Team South Africa’ and assist with the recruitment of a record 20 000 volunteers to work on 2 000 projects this year. These projects provide a huge range of options so that everyone is able to find something that appeals to them. The causes that are being registered with GreaterGood SA have loads of jobs that need doing, from painting homeless shelters, to making sandwiches for the hungry or clearing alien vegetation or working with animal welfare societies and many more.

You can sign up online at Do it Day, or simply SMS the word ‘Do’ and your name to 33009. SMSs are charged at R1,50, free SMSs don’t apply.