Earth Hour — Colombia

On March 31st we celebrate the Earth Hour. The main purpose of this activity is to stop the degradation of the Earth’s natural environment and also build a future where people live in harmony with nature. Organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) this event it’s one of the world’s largest and most respected independent conservation organizations.

To participate on the “Earth Hour” were invited more than 5,200 cities and 135 countries worldwide to switch off their lights for one hour, sending a powerful message for action on climate change.

Colombia team invited their members to participate below a campaign, as this day was a Saturday and we weren’t working, the idea was to take a picture in that moment, and then with those pictures create a poster as a reminder of that day to reflect how we contributed just switching off our lights for one hour

Give Together 2011 Photo Contest

This year’s Give Together (GT) event of Sabre China Office is specifically focused on the welfare of autistic children in Shanghai. A photo contest was held in Shanghai office. All of the participants purchased a ticket to attend the activity, which helped us to raise more than RMB 4,000. This amount will be donated to improve the educational standard of children with autism in Shanghai. Most of Sabre employees of Shanghai and Beijing Offices participated in the event, except a few folks who were on business trips. (more…)

Sabre Finance Adopts Tarrant Area Food Bank as Charity for 2011

Sabre Finance has historically done a lot to help our community.  In years past, we have supported a number of local charities throughout the year– Boys and Girls Club, Lone Survivor Foundation, GRACE.

This year, our team decided to change things up a bit and “adopt” a charity for all of 2011.  With ~120 members, our Finance team can make a significant difference for one charity over the course of a year.  We set out to do just that in 2011! 

In December we opened up the vote for all of the Finance team to nominate a charity, and decided to “adopt” the Tarrant Area Food Bank. 

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Sabre Pacific Auckland – Auckland ZOO Volunteer Morning

Thinking of ideas for our Give Time Together, we gave many suggestions to our organiser Clementine. She kept her head down, thinking away, when one day she sent a message around that simply said – Keep Friday 06^th May free; We’re going to Auckland Zoo for our give time together!

 Interesting choice, we thought!

Everyone started asking questions – What will we be doing? Do we get to meet and feed the animals? Can we take a pet home? Then the question was asked… Will we be shovelling animal excrete? (In perhaps coarser wording!)

Our faithful leader, Clementine, kept quiet and told us to meet at the Zoo at 8.15am sharp on Friday 06^th May. “Don’t forget to wear old clothes and bring spare clothes, there’s shower’s available at the zoo” we were told when we left the office on Thursday night. (more…)

Sabre Account Director invited to speak at Career Day

Sarajane Frederick, Sabre Account Director, was invited to speak at the annual career day for five classes of Kingsway Middle School students.

Topics discussed were working within the travel industry, volunteerism, and volunteer nursing.

As part of the graduating curriculum students must volunteer in the community.

Included in the discussion were:
1.Types of educational experience needed for your career (Travel, Account Management, Technology, Sciences)?
2.Types of skills and field experience?
3.Characteristics (e.g. outgoing, confident, friendly, patient, etc.) needed to be successful in your career?
4.Length in career?
5.What sparked  interest in this career?
6.What is most and least interesting about your job?
7.What is the daily routine and responsibilities?
8.What is the typical schedule?
9.How much family time/personal time do you have?
10.What is the most memorable day of your career thus far?

Lastly, we explored ways in which students could give back to the community such as: food banks, shelters, hospitals, elder facilities, etc.

Let’s celebrate….Give Time Together 2011(Hong Kong)

Our objective  for the day is simple and clear:  to organise a birthday party for the kids from the Hope Worldwide  Kids Centre. All these kids are from low income family in  the area of Sham Shui Po. Their families  will not even able to afford  a birthday cake or even a small present for their birthday. (more…)

GTT 2011: A hope factory, constantly feeding our time-giving engine.

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Tx Tough 250 Bike Ride (Austin to Dallas) benefiting Children’s Medical Center

 I did a ride from Austin to Dallas this May 7th – May 8th for TX Tough / Children’s Medical Center (CMC). As each you know with government cuts happening this year and organizations that like CMC are going to be effected which ultimately affects the kids that this hospital helps everyday.

I choose to this event to support this year because I knew it was something that all my friends are passionate about, ensuring that everyone gets proper health care when needed and not get turned away. I, myself, have benefited from the CMC, as my nephew needed immediate care and they did not hesitate to provide him with all the care he needed. We started just outside of Austin and ended up in Waco the first day, I rode about 95 miles that day. I re-grouped Sunday morning was off at 630a to end up back at Cedar Hill Park around 1130a. It was the best experience I have had riding with such a great group of individuals riding for CMC. I ended up completing over 145 miles total for this bike ride, I got to mile 50 and it was all I could do to get my legs moving. It totally became a mental game but I pushed forth until I knew I could do no more.

In my efforts this year to continue to raise money, I have decide to do the HotterN Hell ride in Lubbock and a 1/2 Ironman this Fall as a benefit for this cause. If anyone would like to donate money for this great cause here is the link to ensure we meet our goal of $1m dollars this year:  http://www.active.com/donate/txtough250/christobias

Thanks,

Christopher Tobias