Hairnets, surgical gloves and tortillas – what do these have in common? They brought all 3 Sabre Holdings hotel groups (TN Car & Hotel, Travelocity Hotels and SynXis) together for the 1^st time in a community Give Together event.  41 members from these groups volunteered at the Tarrant Area Food Bank, which supports more than 48,000 needy families each month.  The food bank is a nonprofit food center that receives and distributes millions of pounds a food each year.  The Food Bank procures donated surplus food and transfers it in usable quantities through nine programs/Member Agencies in 13 North Texas counties. While meeting and working together, all the volunteers learned how to peel apart and package 20 (count them!) tortillas a bag.  While the work was fun, different and glamorous – the group packaged over 100 boxes (38 pounds each). The event concluded with lunch together in a Mexican restaurant where the main fare was – you guessed it – TORTILLAS! – Lynn Hendler    

  

This year we met a side of society that everybody sees but tends to forget; out of fear or due to social class.  We visited this neighborhood known as a “precario”, due that people there have mainly a low level of studies, very low income.  They can’t adquire a home or get a loan to do so.  We decided to focus our eyes on this place that we ALL forget and abandon without caring for who they are or where they’re from; and brought them a morning of joy, providing food, toys, and basic househeld items.  The most important moment was when our souls became calm and held silence in a moment when a child delivered a smile in appreciation and thankfulness.  This aid was for those who could always use a hug or a warm greeting to let them know we’re here to help; without minding country of origin or race or any other political fence, proving that the people of Sabre Travel Network will be here for them.  

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GiveTogether Update From Kraków, Poland

We all know that “giving back” to the community, even a little bit of help, means so much to others.

This year’s GiveTogether Campaign continues Sabre’s tradition of giving back to the community and provides a wonderful opportunity to join colleagues and friends across the company by participating in one of the service projects in Krakow. 2007 Sabre Poland GiveTogether Campaign Chairs Karolina Stepien, Jakub Dziwisz, Adrian Tworuszka and Tomek Krzyzak with PR and communication support from Kathleen Nolan organized a few ways that employees could participate throughout the month of September and October: Read more »

“We can only help ourselves if we help others.”
(Dalai Lama)

Like every year also this year the Campaign of Sabre was giving a
contribution to Charity. On the 11th of September our
task-force-painting team Dirk Hopp, Heiko Kieckbusch, Parthiban Thomas
and House Concierge Mathias started the painting project.   Read more »

Activity No 1:

Date: September 27^th

Place: Companies in the Mega Banco Zone (the part of Bogota where SABRE’s offices are located)

Activity: The Sabre Team participated during the day visiting the companies and collecting money for the upcoming activity at Bella Flor Community also The Sabre employees participated by donating the funds that we collected for the monthly team lunch, the total amount collected was USD 150.

On September 21, the employees from Sabre Venezuela visited the special place called Fundana – La Villa de los Chiquiticos.

FUNDANA’s mission is to provide complete care for the children population (newborn to six years old) of the Greater Caracas area who are in a maximum social exclusion situation by threat or violation of their fundamental rights, cut off from their biological family environment; developing to the fullest their potential and to achieve their outplacement into a balanced family environment.

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English Version 

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The different type of Violence that we face in Colombia, particularly generated by the armed groups caused a series of problem for our society especially for the rural population.
The mayor cities receives daily a steady flow of families displaced from their homes in Colombia’s countryside creating a serie of burgeoning poor neighborhood that in some cases receive support and organizational assistance from the government and different  kind of foundations.

SABRE COLOMBIA 

Chosen organization to work with: 

CAIPORA Foundation, a non -profit organization in Bogota that  helps people who have been forced out of their homes due to the violence in Colombia. 

 Objective:

To help these people  who have been forced  to leave their homes because of violence and who have been relocated to  a different neighborhood, “El Barrio Bella Flor” in Bogota.  Read more »

We have renovated 5 bedrooms at Stadsmissionen, Bostället, which serve as overnight shelter for men who are homeless. Our work has been much appreciated by the staff at the shelter- they have called and emailed explaining their gratitude.  We painted the walls in these 5 bedrooms and had a schedule with 3 shifts for two days. Staff from Sabre Travel Network, Lastminute and Travelocity participated.

Sabre Travel Network: 9 out of 11 participated- 82% participation

27 participated from Travelocity and Lastminute - according to Jeanette Blomqvist from Travelocity, they had 30% rate participation.

The total amount of participants was 36 people.

The Sabre staff was happy, that they were offered the opportunity to help out constructively. It was hard work but worth it, meant a lot for all of us to really see the joy and appreciation from the staff and residents at the homeless shelter- they all came down several times to have a look and thank us in person.

Furthermore it was real fun to get to know the staff from the other offices, to work together as a team to do good. We all would like to thank Sabre for this great and much appreciated event and we all look forward to next year.

On Wednesday Sept. 12^th approximately 60 volunteers from various business units within Airline Solutions gathered at Camp Timberlake in Azle to spruce up the camp facilities.  Volunteers donned their red Sabre volunteer shirts and loaded on a bus outside of building A and when we arrived at the camp we were immediately split into teams.  We had painters, people who wanted to take a walk around the lake, people experienced with power tools, roofers and the brush people.  The painters got to work painting either the front steps of each cabin/tent or working on the main dining hall or bathroom building.  The lake people ended up filling many trash bags while they “strolled” along the lake side.  The people working on the brush cleared out old branches, bushes, weeds, you name it, and they had a huge pile at the end of the day.

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For the 4^th year in a row, the smell of home baked cookies helped to spread cheer through the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The usual Sabre Winston-Salem culprits could be found causing a stir through the quiet rooms as the tantalizing aroma of melting chocolate and butter mixed with sugar and flour drifted lazily down the hallways. Read more »