True Key by McAfee spends Global Community Day giving back


Last Thursday, 46 employees from True Key by McAfee (formerly Passwordbox) gathered at Giant Steps, a bilingual private school in the public interest for children and teens with an autism spectrum disorder.

They had gathered to help out in any way they could: tidying the schoolyard, building furniture, alphabetizing the library.

“McAffee has an initiative called Global Community Day. It encourages all employees to find an initiative such as this one, to volunteer in the community in which they operate. There’s about 8,000 employees at McAfee, and for that day everyone has their day blocked off so they can go out and help in the community,” Ian Jeffrey, General Manager of the Safe Identity group told MTLinTECH.

This year, Marc Dahan, True Key Engineering Support Lead, organized a day for the office to volunteer together at Giant Steps, where his child is a student.

“I spoke to them beforehand and found out that there were a lot of things they needed help with, so I offered our help,” Dahan told MTLinTECH. “One of the things we did was upgrade some of the computers that they had. On the technical side, we had to upgrade from old operating systems and bring it more up to date, including installing some modifications for them.”

“The library also needed to be reorganized alphabetically, so the team did that. We built some furniture for them, some bikes, some basketball nets for the kids to play outside. There was 46 of us for the whole day, so we were able to get a lot of stuff done that would have taken them a long time to do on their own,” said Jeffrey.

“They did a lot, we were very impressed and some of the teams really showed initiative and brought to the table their own ideas of how they could better the situation,” Marla Cable, Giant Step’s Resource Center Coordinator told MTLinTECH.

“For me the biggest moment was just seeing the way the school looked afterwards. In the yard there was a lot of stuff that everyone cleaned up, at least 50 bags of tree branches and leaves and all kinds of stuff were picked up. Having the kids be able to have a yard all cleaned up for them come springtime, that was big,” said Jeffrey.

“I know the afternoon team really had an opportunity to be outside with some of the students, so it was kind of cool seeing them interact. It was nice because it was a learning curve for a lot of them to just further their knowledge of what is autism. It was very rewarding,” said Cable.

 

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