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he May/June HPE
TGives theme is
Diversity. Judy Gray
(South Pacific GSD lood donation: Red25 is a unique giving program by
Employee Programs) Bthe Australian Red Cross Blood Service to save lives
is volunteering time to support girls in STEM through blood donation.
(science, technology, engineering, mathematics) HPE has been registered as part of the Australian Red
fields.
Cross Blood Bank.
“I’m mentoring a team in the 2017 Tech Girls are If you are interested in organising your site to donate, or
Superheroes challenge. School girls work as a just want to donate by yourself, register with the Australian
team to develop an app that solves a community Red Cross Blood Service under “HPE Australia”.
problem. Industry professionals are assigned
to mentor them through the process which
includes developing the business case as well as ite support of Cancer
the application. My team of 5 are aged 8-12 and SResearch. Rhodes, Kotara and
are home schooled on the Central Coast, NSW. Forest Hill have held morning
The girls are working on an app called “Talk to teas as part of Australia’s Biggest
the hand” for speech to sign (Auslan) translation Morning Tea.
for the deaf. Very impressed! And very glad that If you are interested in hosting a morning tea at your site
#hpegives supports my volunteering.” let us know!

GSD Volunteering

National Volunteering Week Give time | Give skills | Give resources

he HPE Gives theme in March/April was the Environment and HPE partnered with Ocean Conservancy as part
Tof our theme. In April 2017, ten HPE Kotara employees plus family members met at Dudley Beach to spend an
8 - 14 May 2017 hour collecting rubbish from the beach, then arranged disposal and collated the results, which were sent to Ocean
Conservancy.

Ocean and waterway rubbish ranks as one of the most serious pollution problems on our planet. This rising tide of
marine debris threatens human health, wildlife, communities and economies. Ocean trash is preventable, and data
you collect are part of the solution. Next time you’re at the beach, or on a waterway, use the Clean Swell app to send
data to Ocean Conservancy to organise, analyse and be part of the published result.