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To combat the technological barriers that sometimes prevent Black women from accessing a wide range of jobs, IBM Canada today announced a donation of 10 IBM ThinkCentre Desktop PCs and two printers to Dixon Hall's Career Steps program. The donation, valued at more than $21,000, will increase awareness and create opportunities for Career Steps' students. "We recognize the opportunity we have to narrow the gap of the digital divide," said Susan Turner, Diversity and Workplace Programs executive, IBM Canada. "Technology can and should be a major vehicle for improving professional opportunities. IBM's donation to Dixon Hall exemplifies our long-standing commitment to diversity and ensuring that people from all cultures have the same opportunities to improve their skills." Dixon Hall's Career Steps program is an employment resource facility for low income women, the majority of whom are Black women and women of colour. Through IBM's technology donation, Career Steps can increase the number of workshops offered, and improve its level of skills training to provide students with the edge they require to compete in today's knowledge and technology-based economy. In addition, IBM Canada's Black Network Group will volunteer their technical assistance and provide additional content and training for technology workshops in the Career Steps program. The volunteers will serve as role models and mentors for Black women. "Our program ensures that Black women and women of colour in
Regent Park and the broader downtown east community have access to
programs and services that will help them make major changes, positive
choices and improvements in their lives," said Kate Stark, Executive
Director of Dixon Hall. "IBM's technology gift and the efforts
of its volunteers, each year, will bring 120 of these women a higher-level
understanding of technology and prepare them to succeed in the workforce."
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