Social Awareness

General community support programs are initiated and supported by AAPL’s parent company Yazaki Corporation. The direction from Japan can be summarized as follows:

Movember

For the second year, AAPL's blokes have come together to celebrate Movember, grow a mo and raise awareness of men's health issues. The Mostralian Arrow team managed to collect $3,005 in donations to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and beyondblue - the national depression initiative.

Special congratulation (and thanks) to Eapen who managed to attract 27 individual donations amounting to $620 raised.

Great effort, thanks to all and looking forward to grow it again next year!

Seaford RSL Annual Remembrance Day Appeal 2009

As every year, 'poppies' were sold to AAPL associates to support war veterans and their families who reside on the Mornington Peninsula area. AAPL was able to raise $390.

Seaford RSL Annual ANZAC Day Appeal 2009

Members from the Seaford RSL sold badges to remember Anzac Day collecting money to provide assistance to veterans and their families. AAPL associates raised $335 for this good cause.

Red Nose Day Appeal

Red Nose Day is a fundraiser for SIDS and kids (sudden infant death syndrome). SIDS is dedicated to saving the lives of babies and children during pregnancy, birth, infancy and childhood and to supporting bereaved families. AAPL managed to collect $390.45 in donations in 2009.

Good Friday Appeal Cake Day

As part of the Good Friday Appeal, AAPL sold cake to associates to raise funds for the Royal Children's Hospital. Everyone enjoyed the delicious cake which resulted in a total donation of $356.50 being collected.

Biggest Morning Tea

On May 28^th, AAPL sold Lamingtons and Apple Slices to associates to raise money for the Cancer Council as part of the annual 'Biggest Morning Tea' fundraiser.

The AAPL family got together over a cup of tea and raised $222.50 in the process. The funds are used to assist with the Cancer Council's research, prevention, education and support services.

Grand Final Pie Day

The 26^th of September 2009 marked the day of the 114^th AFL Grand Final between the football clubs of St.Kilda and Geelong.

AAPL organised a Grand Final Pie Day to celebrate this traditional sporting event and raised $167.40 for the Magdalene Foundation which is a non profit charity aimed at providing funds for research into cures for children with Kidney disease.

Christmas Day Raffle

The earthquake disaster shocked everyone at AAPL and therefore the traditional Christmas Day raffle was put towards relief for Haiti. $164.10 was collected.

Entertainment Book Fund Raiser

All profits from the selling of the new 2009/2010 Entertainment Book were donated to Australian Wildlife Assistance Rescue and Education (AWARE).

AWARE is a charity that works out of Patterson Lakes which rescues sick, injured and orphaned wildlife, cares for and rehabilitates them and releases them back to the environment. They are currently dealing with a lot of injured wildlife as a result of the recent bushfires.

$403 were raised and donated towards our local wildlife.

Seaford Football Club Sponsorship

As part of AAPL's community involvement we have been a sponsor of the Seaford Football Club for many years and although we have experienced cut backs in all areas of discretionary expenditure AAPL decided to retain this sponsorship for the 2009 season.

Samoa Book Drive

Every year AAPL is collecting books for primary schools in Samoa. This year the collection coincided with the tsunami relief efforts.

Pasifika Foundation

AAPL has assisted the Pasifika Foundation charity since 2007 delivering much needed equipment such as computers, printers, stationery, text books, sports equipment and tools to the following primary schools in Samoa free of charge:

• 2007  Saleapaga, Aufaga, Afega
• 2008  Falelupo, Safotu, Falefa
• 2009  Falefa, Lalomanu

Salvation Army Christmas Appeal 2009

AAPL volunteers have been collecting donations for the Salvation Army Christmas Appeal for the last thirteen years. When Christmas 2009 came around we asked again for associate's generosity by donating a small gift or food to help those in our local community who are less fortunate.

Swinburne University Excellence Awards

Every year, Swinburne University's faculty of Information and Communication Technologies recognises students and graduates who have achieved academic excellence. Students across a broad range of areas including Astronomy, Computer Science and Software Engineering, Information Systems and Telecommunications were nominated.

AAPL sponsored the 'Software Engineering Project' award which went to Joseph Lee. Franz Grunta from AAPL attended the award ceremony and presented the award.

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