EL PASO, Texas, June 16, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Volunteers
from DATAMARK, a leading Business Process Outsourcing company,
recently participated in a large-scale donation drive and outreach
trip. As part of the company's 20-year commitment to volunteerism,
the employee-driven fundraiser made the purchase of hundreds of
Bibles possible and was capped off with a trip to Trinidad and Tobago, in which volunteers
personally distributed them. For more details on DATAMARK, visit
http://www.DATAMARK.net
The fundraiser and outreach trip were planned in conjunction
with Youth with a Mission (YWAM), an international
interdenominational organization dedicated to sharing Christian
values and teachings throughout the world. While employees at
various DATAMARK sites around the country spearheaded their own
fundraising campaigns, YWAM coordinated the distribution trip and
helped the team identify which children could be served best by
their efforts.
Over the span of just a few months near the end of 2018,
DATAMARK employees raised thousands of dollars to purchase hundreds
of Bibles for the youths. Then, in February, six DATAMARK
volunteers met up with YWAM representatives in Trinidad and Tobago. While there, the group
visited five schools with children between the ages of 7 and 13 and
distributed more than 500 Bibles. Additional mission work, such as
painting a portion of the YWAM campus building and engaging with
the youth, also took place.
"Some of the schools were in pretty rough neighborhoods," says
Chelsea Hill, a DATAMARK employee
who volunteered to go on the outreach trip. "A lot of the children
came from broken homes." Despite the circumstances, she notes that
the kids were wonderful to work with and were highly engaged during
the visits. "It was really impactful for them," she adds. "The kids
would sometimes break down and cry and thank the volunteers for
taking the time to talk to them."
Hill describes her time in the Caribbean as a "once in a lifetime
experience," but contends the giving spirit is continuous at
DATAMARK. Because of the DATAMARK Gives Back program, employees are
offered 40 paid hours per year to apply to community service
projects of their choosing. Though the team lets employees know
which projects are going on, employees at each site take it from
there, often engaging in friendly competitions to see which
location can generate the biggest results.
"The whole experience was very humbling," says Hill. "It's nice
to see all the hard fundraising work come to fruition and know how
it contributed to the overall goal. It's another thing to be there
and experience what you've fundraised for."
To learn more about DATAMARK's community service program and the
organizations it serves, visit
http://www.DATAMARK.net/about/community-service.
About the Company:
Founded in 1989, DATAMARK, Inc. is a leading Business Process
Outsourcing (BPO) company headquartered in El Paso, Texas. DATAMARK serves Fortune 500
companies, government agencies and other large enterprises at our
delivery centers worldwide, including the U.S., Mexico, and India, offering a wide range of outsourced
back-office services, including call center services; high-volume
digital mailroom and mail center management; and data entry,
document processing and document management, and business
engineering services.
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