Pfizer Volunteers Help At United Way Spring Day of Caring

From Pfizer Pearl River: Volunteers from the Pfizer Pearl River site turned out in record number to work at Vision Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired camp during United Way of Rockland’s 2017 Spring Day of Caring recently. The 40 colleagues from Pfizer’s North Middletown Road research facility painted exterior and interior surfaces and helped with other chores in the Vision’s building and grounds in Spring Valley, including cleaning, raking leaves and picking up loose tree limbs.

Pfizer sponsored the t-shirt design contest for the event. This annual contest is open to all high school students in Rockland County. John Sorrentino of Pfizer recognized the winning student, Jomar Gloder of Ramapo High School, at Palisades Credit Union Park, home of the Rockland Boulders in Pomona, where all volunteers from local organizations gathered.

This year’s Spring Day of Caring was the seventh hosted by Nyack-based United Way of Rockland, an independent organization run by volunteers and staff who focus on addressing long-term solutions for health and human Services problems in Rockland County. Its activities range from raising money from businesses, their employees and the broader community to evaluating what local programs should be funded. United Way brings together a local network of nonprofit, corporate and government partners to implement initiatives that go beyond what single organizations could accomplish alone.

Pfizer’s North Middletown Road location is one of Pfizer’s research sites and a major hub for its global Vaccines and Oncology research and development activities. Pfizer employs over 600 people in Pearl River.

Images Courtesy of Pfizer Pearl River