Africa Stars
Turu Angels - Crowd Charity
Turu Angels is an initiative by TuruGlobal to build a charity fund to support charities which are directly connected to their targets. No big charities with lot’s of layers and cost structures but small charities with a direct connection to its communities. By the community for the community.
Turu Angels uses NFT based crowdsourcing for Charity projects.
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For Donations, TRON wallet: TEYZEzxUwUd2PdzCve2YWj8tQf
The 7 Angels
The Turu Angels project is supporting up to 49 charities spread over 7 different Angels. Every Angel is represented by a Saint. Every Saint represents the type of charities supported and every Saint has its own artist from the TuruGlobal team supporting it with his or her Art.
Saint Cecilia
Patron of Music
St. Cecilia lived during the Roman Empire in the 3rd century and was born to a wealthy Roman family. She vowed her virginity to Christ, but her parents married her off anyway. She then converted her husband to the Christian faith, and he in turn respected her virginity and converted his brother.
The story of how she converted her husband is quite remarkable. On her wedding night she made her vow known to him, and informed him that an angel guarded her purity. Her husband replied that he would believe her and honor her vow if he could also see her angel. Cecilia instructed him to first be baptized, and afterwards he was able to see her angel. The angel then crowned Cecilia with a chaplet of rose and lily.
St. Cecilia is most remembered today as the patron of musicians due to this legend:
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“While the profane music of her wedding was heard, Cecilia was singing in her heart a hymn of love of Jesus, her true spouse.”
TAC Lagos
The Nigerian Church Choir is one of the first of the Charities under Saint Cecilia. A Choir under the inspiring leadership of Michael supporting the local community in Lajos, Nigeria
Talented Minds Music School
The Ghana Music school is the second charity under Saint Cecilia. A music school giving the chance to under priviledged children to learn to play a musical instrument.
Elisabeth of Hungary
Poverty
In her short life, Elizabeth manifested such great love for the poor and suffering that she has become the patroness of Catholic charities and of the Secular Franciscan Order. The daughter of the King of Hungary, Elizabeth chose a life of penance and asceticism when a life of leisure and luxury could easily have been hers. This choice endeared her in the hearts of the common people throughout Europe.
At the age of 14, Elizabeth was married to Louis of Thuringia, whom she deeply loved. She bore three children. Under the spiritual direction of a Franciscan friar, she led a life of prayer, sacrifice, and service to the poor and sick. Seeking to become one with the poor, she wore simple clothing. Daily she would take bread to hundreds of the poorest in the land who came to her gate.
Manny Pacquiao Foundation
The Manny Pacquiao Foundation is a foundation created by former boxing legend PacMan to help poor children all over the world
Jean Baptiste de la Salle
Education
La Salle was a pioneer in programs for training lay teachers. Of his writings on education, Matthew Arnold remarked: "Later works on the same subject have little improved the precepts, while they entirely lack the unction. His educational innovations include Sunday courses for working young men, one of the first institutions in France for the care of delinquents, technical schools, and secondary schools for modern languages, arts, and sciences. The LaSalle University says that his writings influenced educational practice, school management, and teacher preparation for more than 300 years.
Ghana Crypto School
The Ghana Crypto school is the initiative of one of the African Turu Warriors from Ghana.
Francis of Assisi
Nature and Animals
Francis preached the Christian doctrine that the world was created good and beautiful by God but suffers a need for redemption because of human sin. As someone who saw God reflected in nature, "St. Francis was a great lover of God's creation ..." In the Canticle of the Sun he gives God thanks for Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Brother Wind, Water, Fire, and Earth, all of which he sees as rendering praise to God.
Many of the stories that surround the life of Francis say that he had a great love for animals and the environment. The "Fioretti" ("Little Flowers"), is a collection of legends and folklore that sprang up after his death. One account describes how one day, while Francis was travelling with some companions, they happened upon a place in the road where birds filled the trees on either side. Francis told his companions to "wait for me while I go to preach to my sisters the birds." The birds surrounded him, intrigued by the power of his voice, and not one of them flew away. He is often portrayed with a bird, typically in his hand.
One Tree Planted
The OneTreePlanted initiative supports the planting of trees all over the world based on locations chosen