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Dell SA Gets into the Spirit of Giving
for Focus Fortnight
As part of Focus Fortnight, a two week drive to engage
employees with opportunities to “Make a Difference” in their
communities, the Dell South Africa team hosted a Food
Parcel Packing campaign. Each team was given items of
non-perishable food to be packaged into boxes containing
cellophane, ribbon and face paint markers.
The teams were encouraged not only to package, wrap and
decorate their food boxes, but also create a team war cry
encompassing the reasons why volunteering is so important.
The result was 250 hours of volunteering fun in a single day,
some very creative war cries and more than 30 Food Parcels
which were donated to CHOC and Child Welfare, two of our
Strategic Giving Partners.
Dough Schmitt, VP: Global Support &
Deployment, visits Dell Giving Partner
The staff and students at Sci-Bono Discovery Centre, one of
Dell’s Strategic Giving Partners, were pleased to host Dough
Schmitt, VP: Global Support & Deployment, during his visit
to South Africa in September 2012. After a tour of the centre,
Doug met up with 20 students participating in the Sci-Bono
Youth Development Program, currently completing an
accredited ICT essentials course which prepares them for a
career as an entry level PC technician. He spent time chatting
to the students about global trends in IT and provided them
with a motivational speech that left both students and staff
truly inspired.