Tekkie Tax Day
30 May was Tekkie Tax Day and the whole Dell team across the country took part. The TekkieTax Day initiative is by a group of 16 national welfare organisations who came together for a big fundraising campaign and make a big impact. This year Dell supported the children’s sector. All the funds donated by the employees were donated to the Childhood Cancer Foundation South Africa (CHOC), and managed to raise a significant amount of...
Dell partners with Powering the Possible beneficiary to feed the needy
The local Johannesburg team lent a helping hand by packaging food hampers for the needy communities supported by Sci- Bono Discovery Centre, a long standing Dell Powering the Possible partner. Sci-Bono Discovery Centre is South Africa’s largest science centre supporting maths, science and technology in all the schools in the province. The team had lots of fun packaging these hampers, some adding their own special touch, which were...
A new era for ICT: Dell launches an academy in partnership with the DTI and CHPC
On 10 April 2015, Dell South Africa officially announced the launch of a training academy in partnership with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC). The training academy, which has been named Khulisa and means “nurturing” in isiZulu, aims to teach students high performance computing skills which are lacking in South Africa. The program will be a two year learnership directed at...
Dell empowers child cancer patients
As part of the initiative, Dell has donated eight desktop PCs allocated to each of the Choc Childhood Cancer Foundation Houses across SA.Partnering with Dell, Discovery Health has donated a computer game called ReMission.The game has 20 levels and takes the player on a journey through the body of a young patient with different kinds of cancer, Discovery Health explains.
Dell extends education funding
Dell SA donated R800 000 in cash and computer equipment worth R200 000 to community development NGO, Humana People to People.
Christel House South Africa in the Spotlight
Teaching is changing and, in many ways becoming a much more difficult job, but having access to technology can really make a difference. This is according to Ronald Fortune, high-school principal of Christel House South Africa (CHSA), an independent school that provides scholarships and a holistic education to poor children in Cape Town.