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Helping to Rebuild a Community
Michel was one of the first volunteers from BT to sign up for a community project in New Orleans to rebuild homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
Knowing it would be a long hard day, Michel started off with a good breakfast at ‘Mamas’.
Afterwards it was all about sanding and painting.
At the end of the day, the BT volunteers wrote a personal note for the returning home owner.
Mary Jones, one of the residents whose home BT helped to rebuild, said: “I want to thank BT volunteers for coming to take the time to help me move back into my home. I'm so overwhelmed with the fact that the St. Bernard Project organization was able to help me and able to get these volunteers from all over the world. And it's giving me some closure because the past six years have been overwhelming.”
BT was officially recognised as the company with the highest number of volunteers taking part in the Community Service Day.
Another project Michel participated in for two years in a row was the Berliner Tafel. The team helped the Berliner Tafel to collect the food from the exhibition halls at Messe Berlin in a matter of just a few hours so the project could distribute the fresh food to collection points in Berlin and Brandenburg at the weekend.
Michel has done his bit for the environment not only by working for the world’s leading rail manufacturer but also by being an avid cyclist. So much so, that he took part in the German bike to work initiative, whizzing past gridlocked rush hour traffic and some of Berlin’s great sites such as Checkpoint Charlie, Unter den Linden boulevard and the infamous Kiez around Oranienburger Straße while leaving co-workers trailing in his wake. And when most colleagues had hung up their cycling gear in preparation for the winter months, Michel continued cycling to and fro between “Mittelberg“ and “SBU“ come rain or shine.
