2009 Corporate Responsibility Report - Acer Group
2009 Corporate Responsibility Report - Acer Group
2009 Corporate Responsibility Report - Acer Group
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<strong>Acer</strong> <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Responsibility</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2009</strong><br />
It’s Time for Community Involvement<br />
<strong>Acer</strong> Philippines<br />
Career Introduction Project for Children<br />
Food for the Hungry (FH) is an international relief and development organization to help deprived children living in<br />
impoverished regions around the world; one of the adoption programs is conducted in Catmon – a shockingly destitute<br />
area in Malabon. <strong>Acer</strong> Philippines cooperated with FH to visit Catmon in May, August and November in a group of 8<br />
to 10 volunteers, introducing these children to a variety of vocations, reading books about these vocations to them,<br />
and getting them to play in games. About 40 children participated in the activities. Due to severe misfortune, the only<br />
vocations that these children were aware of were teachers, doctors, nurses and police work. These vocation-based<br />
activities encouraged children to aspire to take up other esteemed professions in the future.<br />
Digital Opportunity Project for the Disabled<br />
<strong>Acer</strong> Philippines has always put education and creating digital opportunity at the forefront of their community charity<br />
work. In <strong>2009</strong>, the organization continued to collaborate with the National Vocational Rehabilitation Center (NVRC),<br />
donating 10 desktop computers to assist in the building of a new training facility.<br />
Tahanang Walang Hagdan (TWH) (meaning: A House Without Stairs, in local dialect) is another non-governmental<br />
organization that targets the welfare of the physically and mentally disabled. The organization suffered tremendous<br />
losses during typhoon Ondoy in <strong>2009</strong>, and <strong>Acer</strong>'s subsidiary there donated 5 desktop and 1 laptop computers, and<br />
1 projector to help TWH rebuild so as to create more digital opportunities for the disadvantaged. Additionally, <strong>Acer</strong>,<br />
Chunghwa Telecom, Tamkang University's Resource Center for the Blind and the Institute for Information Industry set<br />
up a Digital Opportunity Center for the Blind in the Philippines in October, <strong>2009</strong>; by means of integrated information and<br />
communication technologies, the visually challenged may discover new employment via their capabilities in computer<br />
science, thus helping them rebuild their life and be self-sustaining to better their prospect in life.<br />
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