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Amazon employees and celebrities across Europe run together to raise money for local charities
Local fun run and walk events support employee health & wellbeing and raise over €40,000 for charity -
How Amazon in Europe is supporting India in response to COVID-19
Amazon in Europe is leveraging its scale and resources to support employees and communities in India amid the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. -
From hospitals to homeless shelters: meet the man on a mission to help Dublin’s communities
Leading projects for classrooms, hospitals, homeless shelters and more, AWS InCommunities volunteer Thomas Carroll is on a mission to help Dublin’s communities. -
Inspiring and igniting passion, a ninth-grade internship like no other
Pascale was bowled over by the Amazon Future Engineer program and the professional way her son was welcomed during his mandatory ninth-grade internship in France. The internship presented the different professions within the IT sector and has helped her son clarify his career plan. -
Meet the winners of the AWS Educate Challenge for UK and Ireland
The AWS Educate Challenge invited university students to build their cloud computing skills while competing for top prizes – and the results are in. -
Amazon.it joins the 24th annual Food Drive organized by Banco Alimentare in Italy
From December 1st to 10th, customers in Italy can choose to donate from a selection of products including packaged meals, snacks, baby food, and canned food to Banco Alimentare, the local Italian Food Bank from a page dedicated to the charity on Amazon.it. Amazon Italy kicks-off the drive with a donation of 500,000 meals to the Food Bank. -
AmazonSmile: 10 million Euros for charities across Germany and Austria
AmazonSmile has disbursed 10 million Euros in total to over 20,000 charitable organizations in both countries. Customers can support one of currently more than 25,000 organizations in Germany and Austria, at no extra cost to them or the organizations. For every qualifying AmazonSmile purchase, AmazonSmile pays out 0.5% of the purchase price to the customer’s favourite organization. -
Supporting writing in the UK: the Amazon Literary Partnership opens for 2021 grant applications
After making a round of donations to writing groups in the UK in 2020, the Amazon Literary Partnership is now accepting applications for support in 2021 from non-profit literary organisations. -
Michaël, the 8-year-old aspiring video game programmer in France
During the lockdown in France, Michaël took part in the “Start from Scratch” workshop set up by Amazon, in partnership with Tekkie Unie, aimed at introducing primary school pupils to programming. He loved it and even plans on creating video games with his friends. -
Meet the Amazon teams preparing your orders in the UK
We have made more than 150 process changes to keep our incredible people safe during the pandemic and deliver magic experiences for customers. -
AWS GetIT launches in Ireland to inspire more girls into tech
Secondary school pupils aged 12 to 13 across Ireland – north and south – are invited to design an app-based solution to a specific problem for their community or school – learning practical and digital skills along the way. -
What is the Door Desk Challenge?
Amazon employees and their families in the UK have been getting creative at home with designs inspired by themes such as, the value of community and the environment.
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