ARC in community relations

Another Action Resource Centre project Rank Xerox has, like its American parent, Xerox Corporation, for the past four years, released individual employees for periods of up to six months to take part in community service, making available 66 man months each year. The opportunity has been taken up by employees at all levels. Some 40 people have been granted leave, and activities have ranged from assisting in administrating a leper colony in West Africa, to improving local amenities in the course of clearing a canal in the North of England. Particularly notable was the leave taken by a young lady who had, through family connections, acquired building skills. She went to Nigeria with her husband, also a company employee, to assist building a community centre somewhere in the Nigerian bush. She did the bricklaying and plastering, he did the labouring.