Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) employees volunteered in the Amman area on October 10th 2007 for the company’s second annual Global Day of Service. The local work is part of a larger event mobilizing 11,000 Motorola employees in 47 countries to volunteer in their local communities.
The Motorola employees took half day off work to volunteer at more than 300 projects that address a variety of community concerns, including education, environmental sustainability and social services
To assist local projects, Motorola staff participated in helping and educating special needs and university students. Motorola employees took half day off work to volunteer in projects that address a variety of community concerns, including education, and social services.
Locally, all Motorola Jordan employees were involved in three projects and more than 350 students benefited from their involvement in Amman:
• INJAZ: where Motorola conducted two educational presentations about management and introduction to GSM networks
• Community rehabilitation Centre for Handicapped Care: trying to provide a change in the social status through enhancing the abilities of handicapped, their independence, achieving the principle of opportunities
• Our Lady of Peace Centre: trying to improve the Social conditions of people with disabilities in Jordan through spending time with the handicapped/ special needs people to let them feel equity and independent and helping the centre in painting playing areas and the pavements.
“Motorola cares about the communities we serve, and we’re using both our minds and our muscles to show it,” said Ed Zander, Motorola chief executive officer. “We are proud of the talent, creativity and dedication our employees demonstrate in the community on this day and throughout the year.”
“The global day of service enables Motorola Jordan to focus on an important area of charitable giving – educational and social,” said Motaz Hourani, Jordan Country Manager for Motorola. The Jordanian community has embraced the Motorola brand during the last decade and we welcome the occasion to give back our time and resources through global day of service and other CSR activities,” added Hourani.
In addition to the Global Day of Services, thousands of Motorola employees also participated in in-office projects such as a global giving drive to benefit the United Nation Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF) School-in-a-Box program, which is used around the world to get children back to school in the first 72 hours of an emergency. Each kit contains supplies and materials for a teacher and up to 80 students. This Global Day of Service campaign complements a grant of $100,000 to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF for the School-in-a-Box program by the Motorola Foundation, which has supported education and community services worldwide since 1953.
Visit www.motorola.com/globaldayofservice to learn more about Motorola’s Global Day of Service.
About the Motorola Foundation
The Motorola Foundation is the independent charitable and philanthropic arm of Motorola. With employees located around the globe, Motorola seeks to benefit the communities where it operates. The company achieves this by making strategic grants, forging strong community partnerships, fostering innovation and engaging stakeholders. The Motorola Foundation focuses its funding on education, especially science, technology, engineering and math programming. For more information, on Motorola Corporate and Foundation giving, visit www.motorola.com/giving.
About Motorola
Motorola is known around the world for innovation and leadership in wireless and broadband communications. Inspired by our vision of seamless mobility, the people of Motorola are committed to helping you connect simply and seamlessly to the people, information and entertainment that you want and need. We do this by designing and delivering "must have" products, "must do" experiences and powerful networks -- along with a full complement of support services. A Fortune 100 company with global presence and impact, Motorola had sales of US $42.8 billion in 2006. For more information about our company, our people and our innovations, please visit www.motorola.com.
