This year could be really special for Fujitsu and The Prince’s Trust. The Trust is one of the charities competing in a staff vote to be Fujitsu’s Charity of the Year.
So this is a blatant request to the many, many Fujitsu people who read HotViews - please vote for the Prince’s Trust! The Trust helps truly disadvantaged young people to gain the skills, confidence and self belief they need to get a job, attend school or college or just ‘go for something’ they really want to achieve. These youngsters are from some of the worst backgrounds you can imagine. Often living in poverty, struggling with mental health problems, disability, low self esteem or simply without support from family or other role models. The Prince’s Trust has an enviable record of turning round these young lives, more than three in four young people they help go on to get a job or further training.
As readers know, I am deeply involved with The Prince’s Trust – now on their Advisory Board. Perhaps I can relate a recent experience of mine. I visited one of the Trust’s centres in Birmingham. There was a rather shy girl sitting in a corner. I went over to talk. I asked her why she wasn’t at school. “Because I kept getting stabbed” she replied. What did you do about it? I asked. “I snitched on them. Now they are threatening to murder me”. She is now waiting to start a new course (she wanted to learn how to look after animals) in a new location next term. Her parting words to me were “I feel safe here.”
Each year, the Prince’s Trust helps c50,000 young people to change their lives for the better. Without support from organisations such as Fujitsu, their work simply wouldn’t be possible.
So, Fujitsu, that’s why The Prince’s Trust needs your vote!