Celebrating 25 years by sheer hard work

AOL, celebrated their 25-year anniversary around the world by donating a day's work to charity. Last Thursday, the 20th of May, 40 AOL personnel invaded Camphill Dunshane armed with wheelbarrows, shovels, cleaning equipment, shears, buckets of gardening gloves and bags of enthusiasm.

It was a beautiful day to get away from the computer screens and to shift from software engineering to shovelling, scraping, cleaning and painting. It soon became apparent that this was not seen as just a bit of fun.
Serious work was undertaken and in only hours houses were spring-cleaned, the secret garden was brought back to a civilised state, a poly-tunnel was filled with compost and rotivated, garden walls were de-ivied (figure that one out) and the garden was weeded. All that deserved a good lunch...and a good lunch was had.

Both parties genuinely enjoyed the day and we wouldn't be surprised if some of the Aol workers would become regular visitors. Not only is Dunshane very grateful for all the work done, but also for the spirit in which it was undertaken. It's a terrific example that we hope will be followed by other companies.