Community service conducted by corporates

BANGALORE: Microsoft India Global Technical Support Centre commenced its community service week on December 5 and will continue till 16. The community week is a ten-day programme organised by the internal community affairs volunteer group at Microsoft GTSC and gives employees an opportunity to engage with and understand the various community causes supported by the organisation. The community activities team in the organisation is aimed to make that difference, by focusing on 3 broad themes-education, empowerment and environment. One of the large frameworks the team builds every six months is the community week, a initiative created which an effort to create awareness and drive engagement on the three themes.The fortnight long activity began with the ‘Activity for the Disabled’ on December 5. This programme was held in the backdrop of World Disability Day, where 31 students from the NGO Samarthanam were invited to the Microsoft GTSC campus and were given a demonstration the accessibility features of Window 7 and Office 2010. This was followed by a talk on job opportunities in the industry as well as a short tour of the employees’ workspace at GTSC. The day concluded with a fun and interactive session on Microsoft Kinect.Day two kicked-off where volunteers from GTSC and the children from “Dream a Dream” engaged in a colorful activity of painting their dreams on T-shirts. This was followed by a reflection circle, where they shared what they created with the other participants in the group. The T-shirts painted by the leadership team members will be auctioned.