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ONE of the easiest ways you can help the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) spread cancer awareness, is to pay your Tekkie Tax and brighten up your shoes this August.
Tekkie Tax is a national fundraising campaign for more than 250 local welfare organisations.
The organisation supports five sectors: A for Animals, B for Bring Hope, C for Children, D for Disability and E for Education.
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Funds raised by the campaign go towards health programmes and cancer education programmes.
TEKKIE TAX MONTH IS MAY 2022 – support all the NGOS by buying merchandise on https://t.co/RNuoSMbnHu and wear your Tekkie's during the month of May and tag us so we can celebrate with you :)
Help us to change the lives of countless individuals and animals one purchase at a time pic.twitter.com/QZJuiB0eVV
— Tekkie Tax (@TekkieTax) March 29, 2022
What can you do to support the fundraiser? You can:
- order “Better Together Tekkie Tax” by purchasing a R10 sticker;
- purchase a “Happy Tattoo” for R10;
- get laced up with a set of the uniquely branded Tekkie Tax shoelaces for R35;
- order a Tekkie Tax T-shirt. (Adult shirts are priced at R100, and children’s shirts are R80.)
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Tekkie Tax Month will kick off on Friday, August 6. Make sure you get your sticker or a funky set of shoelaces to support one of the five sectors.
Support a local NGO this August. For more information about Tekkie Tax or their merchandise, go to the website: www.tekkietax.org/shop/
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