Volunteers Donate Time, Skills To Revitalize Roswell School

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Roswell’s Mimosa Elementary School recently received a much needed makeover when 50 volunteers from global IT company, Dimension Data, together with national service organization City Year, descended on the school to complete a number of projects.

Those projects, which were done May 21, included painting educational and active playground graphics to encourage active play and continued learning outside the classroom, revitalizing garden beds to create a student learning garden for classes to utilize throughout the year and many other similar tasks.

“Our corporate social responsibility program, Heads, Hearts and Hands, spans the breadth of our global business, involving 58 countries in five regions,” said Mark Slaga, CEO of Dimension Data Americas. “Our corporate values define who we are as an organization, and in 2014, more than 25,000 Dimension Data employees got involved in a variety of causes that made a tremendous difference and we are looking to do even better this year.”

The Heads, Hearts and Hand program enables the company to share resources globally and work together with employees across three main areas: social issues, environmental issues and ethics and governance.

As part of the program, Dimension Data employees receive eight hours of paid time off annually to give back to the charities of their choice. Every year, across the Americas, the company’s employees participate in hundreds of initiatives with organizations as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility Program such as the MS Society, Habitat for Humanity and the Ronald McDonald House. Worldwide, Dimension Data participates in more than 500 initiatives every year.

Grateful for the volunteers, Mimosa Elementary’s students sent hand-written thank you notes and even tweeted a photo of students enjoying the fruits of the volunteers’ labor the next day.

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Photo 1: Dimension Data employee Kenny Marus paints a world map to represent Mimosa’s student population spanning 27 countries.
Photo 2: Dimension Data employee Mary Ellen Warta creates class benches for each grade; a kindergarten student is allowed to help during recess
Photo 3: 5th graders join Dimension Data volunteers to create track lines around playground as part of school’s “Get Fit” initiative.
Photo 4: Dimension Data volunteers build and paint mural benches to celebrate each grade and provide outdoor classroom seating for students.
Photo credits: Dimension Data