Blue Turtle CSI

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Chinese Proverb

Blue Turtle has supported several initiatives in Education, Art & Culture, Sports, Health, Environment and Child & Animal welfare through the years. As an organization we believe that we impact on our environment and as a responsible citizen that we not only need to develop and uplift our internal communities, but support our greater communities to create a confident, caring and knowledge sharing community that nurtures and encourages growth & development for tomorrow’s leaders. 

         

Ukukhula Primary School
Blue Turtle has been a key supporter of Ukukhula Primary Farm School, Pretoria East since 2003.  We have been providing support in terms of computers for the administrative staff, consumables for the printers, man-hour support for break/fix support of the computers and printers, refreshments and christmas party every year, stationery, branded school shirts and bags for pupils and teacher support of adhoc items. Ukukhula Primary Farm School’s beneficiaries are 100% previously disadvantaged individuals (PDI) who rely completely on the support of organizations and the community at large.   



Blue Turtle creates magic with Magical Moments
Blue Turtle Technologies brought much joy to many children around Johannesburg.  Magical Moments invested the donation that Blue Turtle's made as follows :   “Celebrating the niceties in life” The majority of the donation was invested in two separate outings for 91 children from Lulamani Day Care centre, situated in the Kenana squatter camp in Rabie Ridge.  There are 125 children at the day care.  The children were treated to an outing to Kid-e-up, a children’s party farmyard situated in the Kyalami countryside - a chance to play, in the fresh air and sunshine.   
71 delightful children at Kwena Molapo pre-school, situated in the informal settlement in Drummond were treated to a puppet show & lunch treat.  Basic foodstuffs was purchased for Lulamani Day Care when the pantry was bare.  Angie, the teacher could feed the little ones, for some, the only meals that they receive.  Paint was also purchased to paint the additional container that is now a classroom to brighten up the inside and match the exterior of the rest of the day care centre.   A portion of the donation also went to purchasing basic items of stationery towards Spring stationery & lunch treat for a primary school in Soweto in mid September.

Rays of Hope - Cycle Tour - 27 to 30 October 2011
Child Headed Households in Alex - Rays of Hope holistically addresses the needs of child headed households in Alexandra.  Kids bringing up kids in the shacks where their parents died (mostly of aids) need help to lead independent, productive lives.  
Rose-Act Saturday School in Alex - A Saturday school in which learners from Alexandra from Gr 5 – Gr 12 are turtored in Maths, English, Computers and Life Skills.  

Some additional community initiatives that Blue Turtle have supported include:   

St Jane's de Chantal Charity takes care of HIV positive and abandoned children.  They provide them with food, shelter, education and basic medical care.
  
Johannesburg SPCA prevention of cruelty to animals and take care of the well being of abandoned and mistreated animals.

Nelson Mandela Day global celebrations on 18th July saw Blue Turtle staff and their families support this global initiative through donating gifts, clothes and 67 minutes each of their time with the non government organisation Cheesekids.  Volunteers, both young and old, were bussed from Innesfree Park in Sandton to the Itirele High School in Diepsloot.  Teams were tasked with cleaning classrooms, painting and tidying the vegetable gardens.  This project was one of several community projects held countrywide and globally in honour of Nelson Mandela’s legacy and vision of humanitarianism and goodwill.  

Take Five Charity drive in aid of those less fortunate that need a welcoming meal and support aids related affected families.  

Art-of-Motion is high performance dance and rhythmic gymnastics program.   

Sue Lubbe & Friends manage daily feeding and care schemes throughout the country for communities;  from babies to senior citizens.  Annually they participate in the Baragwanath Christmas party and Blue Turtle is one of their supporters.