BD14 Sponsors Tu Toa Secondary School

Last month Karl George Burgess and the hard-working team at BD14, the Manawatu based professional solutions company, were thrilled to be able to grant the first part of their on-going sponsorship programme with the local Manawatu secondary school, Tu Toa. This fits in well with their taking over the operations of the school’s hostel during all of 2014 and which will continue into 2015.

Tu Toa is a special character school designed to provide youth with an alternative way of learning in comparison to your traditional mainstream schools. Tu Toa has a strong focus on developing talented boys and their rugby careers as well as ensuring they learn the importance of a good education and finding the balance between the two.

Tu Toa was founded by Erana’s father Dr Ra Durie some years ago and due to the growth of Tu Toa, 2014 saw the school relocate to a larger site and the year was spent redeveloping the site and school. The last project to be completed was the school gym. Together Ra Durie and Karl have spent time sourcing sponsors and putting together a world class gym, along with BD14, Sports Med Manawatu, (Dr Durie’s private practice) Broadway Radiology, Cookson and Forbes accountants and Clinton Pinto Radiologist from Auckland who all kindly donated to successfully set up the Tu Toa school gym.

Both Karl and Erana feel very proud and privileged to be fortunate enough to help Tu Toa. Seeing what the boys had to work out in last year and then being able to see them walk in and train the first time in their brand new gym was amazing! “These are the moments that make all the hard work and crazy hours working all worth it”, Karl says. Sponsorship is something both Karl and his fiancé Erana love to be able to do and hope that they will be able to continue to do so in the future.