Comcast volunteers will spruce up schools
April 16, 2009
Cable operator Comcast announced today that roughly 50,000 of its employees will participate in Comcast Cares Day this Saturday, as volunteers work in their communities to benefit local schools.
In California, more than 4,000 Comcast volunteers and their families and friends will help improve 25 schools that have been affected by budget cuts, the high speed internet company said.
Volunteers will spend the day repairing fences, planting shrubs, repainting walls, building picnic tables and bookshelves, weeding flower beds, installing carpet, power-washing playgrounds, replacing mulch and performing landscaping projects.
In San Jose, volunteers will be restoring a mural, while employees are donating a playground steam roller for special needs classes in Chico, Comcast said.
Wilson Middle School in Chowchilla will receive a technology makeover with Comcast-donated Promethean Smart Boards - interactive white boards connected to the internet - for every classroom.
"So many of our students were impacted by funding cuts and the state budget impasse, that our Comcast Cares Day efforts this year at 25 California schools will be all the more meaningful," said Steve White for Comcast California.
The annual day of service, the company's eight, is one of the nation's largest corporate volunteer efforts, Comcast said.
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