Lynn Niewald - Conducted a resume writing and interview skills workshop for a group (some ex-convicts) in Dallas, Texas, USA.

Dunia Velarde - Delivered “Trust in the Tomorrow” books, donated to a cancer support organization in La Paz, Bolivia. 

Christer Svalmark - Helped a day care center with daily routines and program in Stockholm, Sweden.

Chad Howard - Organized 28 stalls for Sherwood State School fete/carnival in Brisbane, Australia.

On Friday 8th May, a group of the SP team spent some time at the Sydney Children’s Hospital as part of our Give Together contribution. From 12.30-4.30pm, we lacquered wooden train sets, dusted and sanitised toys, packed craft kits, and upholstered mini wooden chairs in tissue paper to cover up writing that an over-enthusiastic child had kindly graffitied all over!

While we can’t say it was the most comfortable arrangement sitting on miniature-sized kids chairs at equally miniature desks with our knees up to our chests, it was fantastic that we could sit on the balcony with Mix 106.5 pumping (yes, they gave us our own radio and let us choose the station!) and spend an afternoon doing something different to our usual 9 to 5 and more importantly, something meaningful that we knew would put a smile on the face of a child who was unlucky enough to find themselves in hospital! Read more »

As part of 2009’s Give Time Together an ambitious bunch decided to offer their time to the great outdoors. Which is how we came to be at the beautiful Trumper Park in Paddington. Originally Hampden Park Oval the park was built on reclaimed swamp and filled with various land fill from many of the local road projects over the years. Rudy the Bushcare officer from Woollahra Council helps maintain over 80ha of parks in the area. The project at Trumper Park involved planting a section of Native Garden surrounding the oval with a variety of Local Fauna. We weeded, mulched and planted – it was enormous fun and great to be giving back to the community and environment! Read more »

St. Marys, Australia// Karelle Life Enrichment Service was set up to redefine what it means to be a provider of services to people with intellectual disability and to children in crises.

Their aim is to provide services that showcase the immense strength and perseverance of people with a disability, highlight their abilities and provide them with opportunities to experience life to the fullest. As importantly, to give children and young people in crisis the support to live stable, rewarding lives.

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17 Sabre, Travelocity and Zuji employees

take a step in the right direction to help fight cancer.

Packing host kits for Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea

Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea is one of The Cancer Council’s foremost fundraising events and the largest, most successful event of its kind in Australia. Over $40 million has been raised since it first began in 1994.

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Volunteers are essential to the success of Starlight Day, particularly this year with the fundraising goal a record-breaking $2 million.

Each year there are over 600,000 child hospital admissions across Australia, at the moment Starlight can only reach one in three of these children. Starlight’s aim is to give every seriously ill and hospitalised child the opportunity to access and benefit from its programs by 2010.

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10 employees from Sabre Pacific and Zuji help sort out Salvation Army

It has been said The Salvation Army offers caring support for every problem “from the cradle to the grave.” It’s services are as wide-ranging and diverse as the areas of need in the community, like an umbrella over Australia’s social problems.

Because they have such tremendous scope in their service provision, each program is able to link with other services in the network, thus enhancing their capacity to help those in need.

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On Tuesday 25^th September, 6 Sabre Pacific employees and 1 Sabre Holdings employee, Geoff, Elvina, Kelly, Peter, Sushil, Tanya and Dayl volunteered at the Cancer council office in Sydney. Our Task had been pre-assigned, we were to undress Dougal Bear and redress him as Dougalette in preparation of Pink Ribbon Day.
On Arrival we were shown to the volunteer room which was filled with cancer council merchandise. We received our instructions, remove the yellow t-shirts from the bears and replace with a pink t-shirt, sound easy sure until you see the size of the bear!

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At lunch time on Wednesday 19^th September , 4 nervous volunteers , Kristy-Jai, Winnie, Karen and Tanya, along with 1 “yeah been there done that know what to expect” volunteer, Daniel, set off to the Red Cross Blood Donor Centre.

Proudly wearing our Sabre Holding t-shirts we entered the donor centre and were warmly welcomed on arrival. We then completed the necessary forms to ensure we qualified and for the virgin blood donors among us we were then provided with a sticker to wear indicating we were first timers and of course we wore this proudly.

After this we each went off for a short interview and to check our blood pressure and iron levels. One of us only just scraped in being just one point above the minimum blood pressure cut off point…phew!

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On the mornings of the 3rd and 4th of October 5 Travelocity employees (forever known as the Conservation 5) joined the Department of Conservation in an effort to regenerate bushland in Sydney Harbour’s National Park at Middle Head.

Bushland conservation couldn’t have been performed on two more beautiful days. Shining sun and fabulous harbour scenery saw team role up their sleeves, slap on sunscreen and slip on hats to go about ridding areas of bushland of their foreign invaders. Privet, asparagus weed and lantana (all introduced species) play a huge role in choking our native plant life and quickly taking over vast areas.

With the harbour as our backdrop, Kartik “Napalm” Rao and Mike “Lawnmower”

Coxon, became privet tree removal experts. Simeon “Chainsaw” Malchev proved equally as effective whilst Bo and Tina concentrated on the more delicate operation of digging out asparagus weed and lantana. Read more »