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Social Investment
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13 Aug | 2012 |
Entelect Foundation Personalises its Approach |
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The Entelect Foundation's objective is to Empower South Africa's underprivileged youth through Education. Over the last year a number of high impact schooling concepts were investigated, varying from prototyping teaching aides, to content generation and rewards programmes. In essence we have decided to keep things simple by avoiding "pushing" solutions onto schools that may never use them properly, and will rather focus our efforts on directly assisting who are in need. The programme involves staff putting forward names of needy children that they may have come into contact with. The Foundation, run by Entelect staff, considers the merits of each application and once a child is chosen, commits to seeing through school fees and ancillary support up until grade 12. Coupled with this, the Foundation runs mentorship programmes for these children and their parents on weekends.
Entelect’s engineers all have had the privilege of a quality university education and we believe this is a simple yet effective way of giving back to our communities. The Entelect Foundation currently supports 45 children. Visit our Press Office for more information. |
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08 Sep | 2011 |
Entelect Foundation Launched |
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The Entelect Foundation is dedicated to empowering South Africa's youth through education. Our inaugural meeting was held on 8 September 2011 where invited committee members were ratified and the path set for formal registration as a not for profit institution. Our focus will be on literacy, numeracy and science training, and we will work with business and government to build a self-sustaining, scalable blueprint that works in a South African context. Initiatives that we are currently working on include the distribution of iEducator to disadvantaged communities together with access providers, investigating the development of robust TV based training units (with teaching content) for mass distribution to schools and low cost tablet technology for distribution to children. |
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29 Nov | 2010 |
Delivering Mosquito Nets to Africa |
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Entelect played a pivotal role in assisting the CAR Afrika Expeditionary Force to Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, to deliver mosquito nets to orphanages, hospitals and schools and rescue chimpanzees in desperate need of rehabilitation. The Expeditionary Force team flew in the South African Air Force C130 Hercules to meet up with Kingsley Holgate in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, to carry out their mission. Mosquito nets were delivered in conjunction with the presidential celebrations of the country's 50th Anniversary of Independence. |
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28 Oct | 2010 |
Assisting Disadvantaged Children |
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Entelect has made numerous significant donations to Thandanani, a charity that is dedicated to assisting abused, orphaned or HIV/AIDS affected children with food, clothing and education. |
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22 Oct | 2010 |
Supporting Orphaned Children |
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Entelect has made a donation to support three babies under the care of COMPASS (Community Provision and Social Services), a charity that is dedicated to providing food, shelter, clothing training and education to abused and abandoned babies, children and mothers. |
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05 Aug | 2010 |
Assisting the Fight Against Malaria |
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United Against Malaria focuses on alleviating Africa's malaria scourge, by distributing treated mosquito nets into Africa. To fund this initiative, they are selling bracelets made by South African women, thereby creating jobs and helping Africa to get involved with solving our own problems. 4 bracelets = 1 net = up to 3 lives saved from Malaria. Entelect have bought bracelets for its entire staff in support of this cause. |
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14 Dec | 2009 |
Financial Support for School Children |
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Entelect has been paying for the schooling of six underprivileged children who are related to support staff since 2009. This includes school fees, stationary and uniforms for the children. One of Entelect's core philosophies is to empower those communities that we are directly involved with, be it clients, staff or their families. |
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04 Nov | 2009 |
Donation to Children's Foundation |
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Today Entelect made a Christmas donation to Thandanani Children's Foundation, which facilitates community-based care and support for orphans and other vulnerable children. |
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29 Jun | 2009 |
Assisting Neglected Children |
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Entelect, together with the Bond Exchange of South Africa, made a once-off donation to Sithabile on 1 June 2009. Sithabile is a safe haven for survivors of abuse, exploitation and neglect. On 29 June 2009, another donation was made to Compass (Community Provision and Social Services), a Greater Good South Africa initiative. The COMPASS mission is to lead communities back to wholeness and free them from the oppression of their limiting circumstances; to assist people who have fallen prey to abuse and destitution to realise their value and potential. |
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20 Apr | 2009 |
Support to Burn Victims Families |
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The Paarl Print plant on Dal Josafat, Paarl, burnt down on 18 April 2009. A number of staff members were tragically lost, and others were seriously injured. Entelect extended its condolences to the affected families and pledged its support to a fund set up by Paarl Print. |
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01 May | 2008 |
Supporting the South African Breast Milk Reserve |
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Since 1 May 2008, Entelect has been assisting the South African Breast Milk Reserve charity with monthly donations. This worthy cause supplies donated breast milk to 30 hospitals in South Africa, improving the lives of many infants who would otherwise not have access to this this vital source of nutrition. |
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01 May | 2008 |
Support to Hospice |
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Entelect makes monthly contributions to Hospice South Africa, whose mission is to promote quality in life, dignity in death and support in bereavement for all people living with a life-threatening illness by supporting member hospices and partner organisations. |
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Press Office
| Top Honours for Entelect at Microsoft |
| April 11, 2013 |
| Supplied by Entelect Website Admin from Entelect |
| Entelect has been selected as a preferred African partner to attend the Microsoft Partner Council. This exclusive "by invitation only" event will be held in Redmond, Washington from 17 to 19 April and has been reserved for 41 Microsoft partner companies worldwide. The schedule includes high powered speakers, private boardroom sessions with top executives, tours of Microsoft’s facilities and introductions to new technologies. ... |
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| Entelect Foundation supporting 45 underprivileged children |
| February 20, 2013 |
| Supplied by Entelect Website Admin from Entelect |
| Entelect, through its Foundation programme, is mentoring and financially supporting 45 underprivileged school children this year. Beneficiaries' names were put forward by staff members who know them, thus forming part of the company's extended community. Entelect's commitment is to pay for school fees, books, uniforms and other related education activities until they graduate, taking on new recipients each year as the company grows. Coupled with this a team of 25 Entelect volunteers (and friends) are assisting the children and their parents or guardians on weekends with mentorship support.... |
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| Graduate bootcamp raises the bar at Entelect |
| February 20, 2013 |
| Supplied by Entelect Website Admin from Entelect |
| Entelect has used its extensive university networks to hire fifteen of the top Computer Science and Engineering graduates in the country. The range of graduates came from UJ, Wits, UKZN, Rhodes and NMMU, and all were in the top 10% of their respective classes. Over December and January, they were all put through a series of training sessions affectionately known as our Development Bootcamp. The Bootcamp comprised of a series of lectures and practical projects designed to teach the graduates not only the basics of software engineering but also the issues facing software engineers in the enterprise development environment. ... |
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| Entelect announces 60% growth at year-end bash |
| December 7, 2012 |
| Supplied by Entelect Website Admin from Entelect |
| Entelect’s annual year-end party took place at Riverstone Lodge on Friday 23 November in Muldersdrift. A variety of team-based “Entelect Survivor Games” activities took place in the afternoon, followed by drinks and prize-giving on the terrace and a superb dinner buffet of South African foods. Dancing and festivities progressed at full vigour with the last bus departing in the early hours of the morning!... |
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| Jaco Cronje banks R100k courtesy of the Entelect R100K Challenge! |
| October 16, 2012 |
| Supplied by Entelect Website Admin from Entelect |
| Last weekend saw the Entelect R100K Challenge finalists battle it out for R100 000.00 in prize money at Africa’s biggest gaming expo, rAge.... |
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