Since 2005, employees at Boston Scientific's facility in Galway, Ireland have nominated a new charity each year and embarked on a number of fundraising initiatives in support of their chosen cause.
Autism has been chosen as the Galway facility’s 2009 Charity of the Year. The fundraising target for the year is €50,000, which employees hope to raise through a variety of fun and innovative fundraising events.
Ábalta, a school for children with Autism, has been selected as the recipient of the funds to be raised. Founded in 2001 for the specific education needs of children diagnosed with autism, Ábalta is regarded as a center of excellence and is the only Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) school in the West of Ireland. It currently operates out of two schools in Galway City that serve eighteen children. One of the organization's key goals is to build a custom school with the capacity to serve 30-40 children.
Boston Scientific's Galway Employees Break Guinness World Record®
450 Boston Scientific employees from the Galway facility made history recently by breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest number of people cycling exercise bikes simultaneously for 10 minutes. In the process, they raised €25,000 for Ábalta.
Since 2005, employees have raised in excess of €300,000 for local Galway charities. Organizations employees have supported within the local Galway community include Console, Galway Rape Crisis, National Breast Cancer, Down Syndrome and Cystic Fibrosis.
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