To celebrate the occasion, the Nelson Mandela Foundation has called on the public to honor his 67-year career in serving the country by devoting 67 minutes to charitable causes.

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The Nobel Peace Prize winner, who fought the country’s apartheid regime and become South Africa’s first black president in 1994, would spend the day quietly, “with friends, family and comrades,” as his backers marked with the launch of a new charitable initiative called Mandela Day, a spokesman told the British newspaper The Guardian.

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