Ricoh Helps Children Charities in india , Japan & the Uk

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Ricoh Helps Children Charities in India , Japan & the Uk

Development of Education Support Program in India,Support for Building a Network for Learning
The Education Support Program starts this fiscal year in rural areas of India, advanced by Ricoh Company, Ltd. and Save the Children Japan in collaboration with India sales company Ricoh India Limited and Save the Children India. As part of this, 10 digital duplicators, which will be used at education sites, are being donated to schools and the local Educational Bureau in the Medak District in Andhra Pradesh State in Southeast India. People involved in this activity were invited to a commemorative ceremony held at the Educational Bureau on October 29.

This program is a new type of activity, which adds a marketing aspect to contributions to society. Donated digital duplicators will be used for printing education materials, local notices, etc., contributing to improve the education environment. At the same time, this will focus on understanding printing needs at education sites in rural India, and their use in market development in an emerging market. Thus Ricoh intends to combine contributions to society with marketing activities, leading to continual contributions to society from a medium and long term perspective. (Donation certificate presented to Medak District Education Officer (on right))

Donation certificate presented to the head of the Educational Bureau in the Medak District (on right)

The digital duplicator to be donated (DX2430)

This program will also continually work on support activities to improve the education environment, especially at the schools where duplicators were donated. It will provide training to strengthen the school management committee at over 63 schools in the Hathnoora Mandal zone of Medak District, establish children’s associations, etc. The plan is to continue this program for three years, and use digital duplicators to support work to independently improve the education environment of the local community. This aims to further improve the quality of education, and help more children to continually attend school.

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Ricoh pitches in for Pudsey Uk
Ricoh’s Northampton call centre helps Children in Need break donation records

Print and office specialist Ricoh UK this year helped to process around £114,000 in donations after its Northampton call centre was appointed one of the official call centre’s for this year’s BBC Children in Need Appeal.

More than 90 staff from across the business, including senior management, technicians and customer service staff manned the phones until 2am to help answer thousands of donation calls.

Building up to the evening, the Ricoh UK volunteers dressed up as well-known film characters. Other activities to raise money included cake and book sales, leg waxing for the male colleagues, and face painting. There was also an online auction which in itself helped to raise £1,319. Local businesses in Northampton also donated items for an office raffle as well as food to keep the volunteers going throughout the night and into the early hours of Saturday morning.

In addition to the auction, on the day Ricoh UK employees raised £3,425.97 through fundraising, which Ricoh more than matched, giving a total in excess of £8,000.

Marco Pezzani, national customer services director of Ricoh UK, said: “This was the first year that Ricoh took part in Children in Need and we were honoured to be involved in such a fantastic event. Our Ricoh volunteers were privileged to be involved in such a major drive to help disadvantaged children and young people across the UK.”

This year, the BBC Children in Need Appeal event raised a record £26.3m on the night, £8m more than last year.

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December 5, 2011 at 9:08 AM