{"id":1822,"date":"2014-06-02T12:08:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T16:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldline.ca\/blog\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2024-05-22T22:36:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T02:36:51","slug":"backpacks-for-kids-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldline.ca\/blog\/backpacks-for-kids-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldline&#8217;s Backpacks For Kids is Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1824\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldline.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BPFK11.png\" alt=\"BPFK11\" width=\"504\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.worldline.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BPFK11.png 504w, https:\/\/www.worldline.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BPFK11-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/www.worldline.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BPFK11-420x300.png 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last June our co-founder and CMO, <strong>John Stix<\/strong> introduced\u00a0the official Worldline charity, &#8220;backpacks for kids&#8221; and we&#8217;re doubling down on it again in 2014:<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #373737;\">A Message from Worldline\u2019s CMO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">In the Dominican Republic every child may attend school, however there is a minimum requirement to be met. The family must supply a school uniform, books and supplies.\u00a0Unfortunately, many families do not have the necessary resources resulting in\u00a0their children being kept out of school meaning\u00a0thousands of kids have\u00a0their\u00a0futures limited due to a\u00a0lack of education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;backpacks for kids&#8221; was started by a small group of caring individuals at Worldline because the Dominican Republic is close to their\u00a0hearts. We operate a 70\u00a0seat call centre in Puerto Plata called the Fibernetics Contact Centre run by Kitchener, Ontario native <strong>Pete Cross<\/strong>. Because of Pete&#8217;s and our efforts\u00a0up here,\u00a0over 130\u00a0young children have realized their dream as they have been\u00a0provided\u00a0fully packed backpacks &#8211; and everything they need to go to school. You can check out last year&#8217;s slide show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldline.ca\/blog\/backpacks-for-kids-a-slideshow\/\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">This cause has been embraced\u00a0both in the Dominican Republic, and at our headquarters in Cambridge, Ontario<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1823\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldline.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Chalkboard-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chalkboard\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.worldline.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Chalkboard-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.worldline.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Chalkboard-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.worldline.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Chalkboard.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">We continue to raise money within our company with a bunch of fundraisers held throughout the year, like this Tuesday&#8217;s Pulled Pork BBQ lunch with all proceeds going to the kids &#8211; (and as a bonus it will be yummy!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Worldline wide, for the month of June we will be donating $5.00 for each new Bundle sale and $3.00 for every home phone sale directly to the charity, so the more Canadians we help by saving them hundreds on their telecom bills, we&#8217;ll be sending even more kids to school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;backpacks for kids&#8221;\u00a0is our own\u00a0homegrown charity and in the few years of its existence the tangible difference it has made in the lives of these children has been remarkable.\u00a0 Seeing the smiles on all those children and parents has inspired us to do even more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Thanks to everyone on the Worldline team for their work and energy for helping build &#8220;backpacks for kids&#8221; into what it is today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Cheers<br \/>\nJohn Stix &#8211; CMO Worldline\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last June our co-founder and CMO, John Stix introduced\u00a0the official Worldline charity, &#8220;backpacks for kids&#8221; and we&#8217;re doubling down on it again in 2014: A Message from Worldline\u2019s CMO In the Dominican Republic every child may attend school, however there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldline.ca\/blog\/backpacks-for-kids-is-back\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backpacks-for-kids","category-canada","category-worldline"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Worldline&#039;s Backpacks For Kids is Back! 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