For some, the knowledge that 165 million people in Latin America are living below the poverty line (ECLAC), might leave them wondering how they could ever make a difference.
NetSuite Employees Spend the Day at the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma City
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During NetSuite's first-ever Global Impact Week, more than 1,000 employees volunteered 3,200 hours with charities and local causes. The SuiteImpact Team in Oklahoma City spent the day sorting and packing food at the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma. In this video, volunteers share about their experience participating in Global Impact Week and what NetSuite's committment to giving back means to them.
MANA is dedicated to addressing severe cases of malnutrition in children by creating and distributing ready-to-use-therapeutic-food (RUTF), a fortified peanut paste that has been carefully formulated to meet a child's basic nutritional needs. Roughly three servings of MANA a day for six weeks can save the life of a child suffering from severe acute malnutrition. NetSuite.org is thrilled to be able to support their work to ensure that MANA packets are created and distributed efficiently with a software donation of NetSuite.
NetSuite employees have helped to drive some tremendous results this year supporting NetSuite.org initiatives like the Hackathon 4Good and the SuiteFit 4Good which took place at SuiteWorld 2015. Today, we have new milestones to add to that list: more than 800 volunteers around the world rolled up their sleeves to give back as part of NetSuite’s first-ever Global Impact Week, volunteering more than 3,100 hours.
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” - Mahatma Gandhi
From park cleanups to Habitat for Humanity builds, from food drives to blood drives, NetSuite employees are committed to making a positive impact in their communities.
NetSuite’s first annual Global Impact Week, which takes place next week, October 5-9, will be a chance to celebrate the ways that NetSuite employees give back locally through volunteer service and in-office donation drives.
Passionate and adventurous, Paul Kirch’s affinity for South America started while studying for his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College. As part of a six-month internship, Kirch moved to Caracas, Venezuela where he helped to build a school and source clean water for a community development project in Cano Negro, an area three hours east of Caracas.
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