Global Services Company to Donate Items to St. Vincent’s Children’s Program
Donors and Village Children Will Create Mural in Honor of Local Military Personnel

   SAN DIEGO — St. Vincent de Paul Village will receive a donation of goods earmarked for its Children’s Services program on Saturday, Oct. 13, at 9 a.m. at the homeless rehabilitation center, 1501 Imperial Avenue.

   EDS, a leader in the management of business technology in the digital economy, will present items – ranging from diapers and clothing to baby food – to the Village as part of the company’s annual charitable outreach program.

   About a dozen EDS employees will deliver the donations and participate in a planned group activity with St. Vincent’s families.

   Those families, along with the help of EDS staff, will decorate a large poster board in honor of the many local military personnel who are taking part in America’s response to the Sept. 11 attacks on New York City, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania. Notes of support, poems and other messages from the Village residents and EDS volunteers will cover the board. When completed, the piece will be sent to the sailors on the San Diego-based guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53), currently operating in the Persian Gulf region.

   EDS will also hand out small American flags to the children, giving the youngsters and their families the opportunity to show their patriotism.

   EDS is currently working closely with the military on a developing project – the Navy Marine Corps Intranet Information Strike Force – which, upon completion, will make a full range of information services available to sailors and marines for day-to-day activities and during times of war.

   For more information on the EDS donation, call (619) 525-1608.

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