BIRMINGHAM, Ala.— During the holidays, the spirit of giving and investing was realized by Holy Family Cristo Rey from BancorpSouth. The company has been a supporter of the school for several years and is involved in the highly successful Corporate Work Study program implemented by Holy Family Cristo Rey. Recently, BancorpSouth had people from around the company in BirmIngham looking for some community outreach projects that they could get involved in corporately. After an invitation to the school, BancorpSouth left impressed. “We saw some tremendous work being done and this looked like a project that BancorpSouth could support,” said Don Giardina, a division president of the company. With the visit, BancorpSouth learned of a technology need at the school and their company was undergoing an upgrade of their technology simultaneously. Giardina said, “We were able to identify about 22 PCs to give to the school and a contribution for the soft costs in getting those computers up and running and make them an integral part of the IT at Holy Family and in turn an integral part of the overall educational effort of Holy Family Cristo Rey.”
The computers have been brought to the school and are being implemented now to the best resource they can be in helping the technological needs for them. The Corporate Work Study Program that BancorpSouth is involved in as well with the school helped in the decision as well. “It is really kind of a unique program that we have seen in regard to the footprint of our company and something we felt like we would be well served to be a part of,” said Giardina. He went on to add that they saw more greater need and no more greater benefit to the community than Holy Family Cristo Rey and that is why they chose to be a part of it.
To learn more about Holy Family Cristo Rey, please visit www.hfcristorey.org.
