Acer Volunteers

Acer Volunteers Committee was established in October 2004 for the purpose of giving colleagues a channel to contribute their spare time and energy to public welfare service. Apart from providing opportunities for interaction and friendship between colleagues from different departments and backgrounds, Acer Volunteers leads to new life experiences and personal growth through volunteer activities that give back to society and manifest corporate responsibility.

Acer Volunteers now has nearly 130 members who volunteer their knowledge. Activities mainly revolve around Acer's core business and involve setting up Internet service, computer repair, software design, and providing assistance to disadvantaged minority groups. Among the numerous activities held by Acer Volunteers since its establishment include donating computer equipment to Taiwan's rural Pingtung county and installing computer classrooms for the local aboriginal children there, setting up free computer maintenance clinics at annual community gatherings, promoting child sponsorship programs, donating resources to related charitable organizations (such as the Hualien Society for Early Intervention), and holding annual donation drives for charity.

 In early 2006, Acer Volunteers donated notebook computers, projectors and other IT equipment to support Chung Yuan Christian University students in the Department of Information Management in establishing the Thailand-Myanmar Border Information Volunteer Team. This team has established an E-Opportunity Center along the border of Thailand and Myanmar to open up new windows on the world for local residents. The project also goes toward cultivating more local youth and building their information capacity.