By providing another community with an improved education infrastructure, our company was able to exercise our core vision of ‘Delivering Awesomeness’ this holiday season.
Portland, ME (PRWEB) January 11, 2016
Employees from leading bilingual contact center Listen Up Español, helped build a school in La Ferme, a community in the Sud region of Haiti, through a partnership they have with the international nonprofit, buildOn.
The United Nations’ Human Development Index ranks Haiti as the poorest country in the western hemisphere; 77% of the population lives below the poverty line of $1.25 USD per day. According to a UNICEF study almost half of all primary school-age children in Haiti do not attend school, and Haitian public schools have the capacity to serve only one quarter of the school-age population.
“The hands-on experience of building a school alongside members of the community means so much more than simply giving money. Working with buildOn helped make our company’s impact much stronger and gave employees an opportunity to see first-hand the effect they can have as a caring and powerful team,” said Tony Ricciardi, Co-Founder and President of Listen Up Español. “By providing another community with an improved education infrastructure, our company was able to exercise our core vision of ‘Delivering Awesomeness’ this holiday season.”
Employees interested in volunteering were required to submit a home-made video explaining why they wanted to go on the trip. A total of 11 individuals, including Ricciardi, his son and employees from Listen Up Español’s fundraising partner, Synapse Group, Inc., traveled to Haiti as volunteers. The group was in Haiti December 12 through December 19, 2015.
Listen Up Español has been actively working with buildOn for several years to help break the cycle of poverty, illiteracy and low expectations through service and education. The company previously funded the construction of a separate school in Haiti and also sent employees to build a school in Nicaragua in 2012.
To learn more about Listen Up Español’s philanthropic efforts, visit http://www.ListenUpEspanol.com.
About buildOn
At home or abroad, buildOn’s goal is to break the cycle of poverty, illiteracy and low expectations through service and education. Across the U.S., buildOn empowers urban youth to transform their neighborhoods through intensive community service and to change the world by building schools in some of the economically poorest countries in the world. Since 1991, buildOn has constructed 787 schools worldwide, with more than 107,000 children, parents and grandparents attending these schools every day. For more information, visit buildon.org. buildOn has a 4 star rating from Charity Navigator.
About Synapse Group, Inc.
Synapse leverages powerful brands to deliver customized solutions that achieve our clients’ marketing objectives. Our innovative programs have helped some of the world’s largest consumer brands strengthen their customer relationships and their bottom lines.
At Synapse, we employ over 170 professionals whose sole focus is creating, executing, and sustaining winning marketing programs tailored to our clients. Our reputation for innovative programs and world-class execution spans multiple channels, including retailers, airlines, direct response, and internet companies.
About Listen Up Español
Listen Up Español is the leading bilingual contact center for Spanish and English agent services. Headquartered in Portland, Maine and operating in Hermosillo, Mexico City and Belize, the company employs over 800 agents and provides companies with contact center services to reach consumers in the United States, Mexico and other countries in Latin America.
Listen Up Español offers clients a broad range of services, including inbound and outbound sales, nonprofit donation calls, customer service and lead generation. Additionally, Listen Up Español provides campaign planning, scripting and advertising production services in both Spanish and English. With a focus on measurement, training and a sales psychology, Listen Up Español has the experience to turn customer interaction into revenue. For more information about Listen Up Español, please visit listenupespanol.com.
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