Amaya Toman Apple's activities in the field of charity and philanthropy are not unusual. But Apple also does not hesitate to support the individual charitable activities of its own employees. An example is Jaz Limos, who works as the manager of the local visitor center in Cupertino's Apple Park. Jaz set up a free barber shop for homeless people - inspired by an incredible encounter.
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One day in 2016, Jaz Limos decided to share her food with a random homeless person. But when she started talking to him, she was surprised to find out that he was her own father, whom she had last seen as a teenager. This emotional encounter raised a number of questions in her, which she consulted with her barber a little later. She realized that the barber's chair is for many people a place where they can open up to others, but also a place where they have a unique opportunity to observe in the mirror the process of changing their own appearance for the better.
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But homeless people don't have the chance to go to a barber and get a haircut to make themselves feel better, or to not be ashamed to go to a job interview or the office, for example. The non-profit organization Saints of Steel, which Jaz Limos decided to establish, is trying to meet them. Apple fully supported her in her efforts throughout the first year, both by providing volunteers and financially. “When we started, our board was primarily made up of Apple employees who just decided to go for it,” Limos recalls. Saints of Steels also owes its support to the corporate donation platform Benevity.
Apple is engaged in many ways, long-term and intensively in the field of charity and philanthropy. During the past year, twenty-one of its employees participated in voluntary charitable activities, and a respectable forty-two million dollars were donated to charity. Thanks to other similar activities, Apple managed to donate a total of one hundred million dollars to charity.
