Diabetes Donation Drive
Investing in Our Communities
AtParking BOXX we care about people. We care about providing you with the bestand most responsive Support that the parking industry has to offer. We careabout our employees, about fostering professional and personal growth in orderto bring our best selves forward. But we don’t stop there. We can’t, in fact,because we know that surrounding each member of our Team are groups of peoplethat help the personal growth process in ways that we can’t. This is why welike to get involved with causes that affect our community—particularly thosethat affect our Team members’ friends and families.
Thisquarter, the Team at Parking BOXX culled their efforts to raise funds for DiabetesCanada by donating clothing, accessories, and household items. The collectiondrive was spearheaded by Shannon, our Social Media and Marketing Specialist whois also our charity-drive organizing superstar. She took the time to educate the Team, set up reminders at companyoffices, and motivated everyone to participate. Behind this goal was the desireto support a cause that affected various members of our Team.
“Acouple of co-workers have family and friends that have diabetes,” she said, “Mybest friend also has diabetes. Diabetes is one of those illnesses that createradical changes to your life. And it doesn’t just affect the person who has it.It affects the whole family.”
Accordingto Diabetes Canada, 5.7 million Canadians over the age of twenty are affectedby diabetes. Along with the immediate effects of the illness, like having toregulate one’s diet and glucose levels, having diabetes comes with otherlifestyle changes. Thirty percent of people with diabetes, for example,experience depressive symptoms.
Insupport of the cause, our Team donated everything from clothes, pots and pans,jewelry and hats. Diabetes Canada partners up with Value Village to sell thesedonations and raise money for various diabetes-related causes. Part of themoney goes towards funding diabetes research in Canada, which has always beenexceptional. After all, insulin, the protein associated with diabetes, wasfirst discovered by Frederick Banting and Charles H. Best in Toronto. Part ofthe proceeds also go towards funding D-camps— camps tailored for kids with type1 diabetes.
Thanksto Shannon’s organizational skills, our Team rounded up enough items to fillseven large boxes —boxes big enough fit our parking kiosks! She made the givingprocess convenient, which often deters people from donating altogether. As oneof our employees put it, “Theinitiative was fantastic. I have lots of clothes and I was very eager to bringthem in to the office and have them taken. This is a very easy way to be acharitable good person”.
Organizing these types of charitable drives areand easy way to bring the Team together while making valuable and importantcontributions to the community. We congratulate Shannon and our Team for makingthis drive such a success and look forward to the next one.
