During 2005, over 37 per cent of Intel Ireland employees volunteered to help with community and education projects with the Intel Involved volunteer programme. Volunteers participated in a wide variety of projects in the schools and communities surrounding Intel.

Popular projects included PC skills classes, working with local youth groups and visiting the elderly in local nursing homes and centres. Among the 58 projects completed, volunteers painted shapes and designs on school playgrounds, planted trees and shrubs with residents associations around the local towns, visited the Leixlip Arch Club a number of times during the year, held PC skills training for members of St. John of Gods, ran in the first ever Intel Road Race as well as the Women’s Mini Marathon and made up over 520 shoe boxes for disadvantaged children at Christmas.

This year 1,250 employees volunteered for Intel Involved projects, an increase of 11 per cent on last year’s figure. Caroline Curran coordinates the Intel Involved programme, “Each year, employees in Intel really make an effort to get involved in volunteer activities after work or in their spare time. This year almost 16,000 hours were volunteered in the local community, this equates to over €122,400 worth of man hours for the local community. I’m looking forward to completing more great projects in our local communities during 2006. If anyone has an idea for a project that Intel Involved might be able to help with please contact Anita O’Grady.” Anita O’Grady can be contacted at 6067000.

Over the last nine years, Intel Ireland volunteers have given over 166,000 hours to the local community.