Middle School Students Donate $650 to Clearwater Marine Aquarium's Rescued Sea Turtles

Middle school students do their part in helping our aquatic life:

 

  Kids in “Friends for Florida” presented $650 toClearwater Marine Aquarium (CMA) to help take care of its rescued sea turtles. The group, made up of middle school studentsfrom Pasco and Hillsborough Counties, was started by friends who wanted to raise awareness about environmental issues. To raise the money, the kids held garage sales, lemonade stands, recycled aluminum cans and collected money outside of a local Wal-Mart.

The donated money will go toward medical supplies for sea turtles at CMA. CMA Sea Turtle Manager Danielle O’Neil said, “We truly appreciate selfless individuals such as these who help us take care of our sea turtles. We couldn’t do what we do without amazing community support like this.” “Friends for Florida” was founded in 2007 by the Mark family of Lutz. They have also raised $2,050 for Save Our Seabirds, Tampa Bay Watch and Big Cat Rescue. The group has also taken part in various clean-up and recycling efforts.

Clearwater Marine Aquarium is a Florida non-profit organization, dedicated to marine life rescue, rehabilitationand release, and environmental education. CMA is home to dolphins, sea turtles, river otters, stingrays, nurse sharks and more.

For more information on the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, visit www.seewinter.com.

 

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Sapphire Technologies has always been a socially responsible company with passionate employees. We are given 1 paid day each year to volunteer (most recently we spend a day at the 2nd Harvest Food Bank in Tampa), there are charities the employees donate to every paycheck, and each office gets a certain amount of money each year to donate to the charity of their choice. Due to a loss of a close friend of one of our employees to cancer, we’ve recently made cash donations to send a child to camp with Hospice and to the Tug McGraw Foundation.

Is this enough? Not even close. The Tampa office decided to take their charity efforts a few steps further.

For the last 2 years the Tampa office has partnered with Metropolitan Ministries during the holiday season collecting and donating several hundred pounds of food. And monthly we choose a charity and each employee donates $5 in order to get a jeans day. Most recently we’ve donated to the slain officers families from Tampa. We usually donate to a local charity or something that has caught our attention in the news. One month one of our teammates decided to clear her conscience by having us donate to the Seabird Sanctuary after accidently hitting a feathered friend in her car.

Whether it’s time or money, the Tampa office of Sapphire Technologies has always tried to lend a hand and we plan on continuing to do so even as the economy gets better.

Sapphire Technologies is the world’s leading provider of innovative IT staffing solutions. Since 1984, Sapphire has helped connect top talent with top companies around the globe or around the corner. Our core competency is the placement of contract, contract- to-hire, and permanent IT and engineering professionals. As the 2nd largest IT staffing company in the world, Sapphire provides customized solutions for both public and private corporations.

 

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