Jobmatch gives back to community
It was a special day on Wednesday, July 29 for the Jobmatch team who saw two projects come together which celebrate their community values.
The Gympie Rotary Community Exercise Park, after several delays due to flooding, launched on a beautiful winter morning on the corner of Rose and Hyne Streets, beside the River to Rail Trail.
Led by Karen Gresham and Gympie Rotary, the project brought together over $90,000 in sponsorship from across the community to create a fantastic facility that enables all ages and abilities to increase their fitness and improve their mental health.
Jobmatch Employment donated $20,000 to the project to mark its 30 years of service to the Gympie and South Burnett communities.
Earlier this year, Jobmatch started to investigate ways to recycle IT equipment or find a way to give it to someone rather than being scrapped.
Introducing the GIVIT program, a charity that connects generosity with genuine need. They brought all parties together with Jobmatch donating tech hardware drives, PC Place upgrading the drives, so that Anglicare Gympie could give the new drives to families in need in our community.
GIVIT also works with the Queenslanders with Disability Network - Digital Inclusion program.
Emma Buhse, who was a recipient of a laptop from the Digital Inclusion program, said, "It literally changed my life."
She’s now the creator of the FB page Up & Down Around Gympie Town – A Power Wheelchair Adventure
The power of community is alive in Gympie and something everyone can be proud of.