As a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, Our Father’s House borrowed mobile showers and portable toilets for the Fitchburg homeless community. Initially they were provided to keep people clean during the pandemic, but it revealed an unmet need with more than 50 people utilizing this free service daily. In July, it came time to return those units and Our Father’s House decided to invest in their own as a permanent solution.
Every year Headwall partners with Our Father's House, a private non-sectarian agency providing shelter and related services to homeless men, women and children, to provide gifts for children in shelters, as well as to produce and donate personal-care kits to those in need.
As part of the Bolton and Fitchburg communities, we feel that it is our responsibility to be a part of the towns in which we live and work. One of our initiatives is the production and donation of hygiene kits for those less fortunate than we are. One hundred of these kits were recently created at our facility by employee volunteers and given to Our Father's House, a private, non-sectarian agency providing shelter and related services to homeless men, women and children.
In 2016 Headwall embarked on a mission of volunteerism. The small, 50-person technology company headquartered in Fitchburg understood that the community it called home was also home to disadvantaged families in need. So beginning with a variety of projects throughout the area, Headwall employees embraced the opportunity to ‘give back’ by partnering with a local charitable organization called Our Father’s House.
“Our goals were twofold,” said Robin Jacobs of Headwall. “We wanted to help out wherever the need arose and we wanted to have broad employee participation,” she said. In addition to sprucing up neighborhoods and planting trees, Headwall and its employees purchased and assembled hundreds of ‘personal care kits’ for disadvantaged people in the area. “It really was a fun experience each time we assembled these kits,” said Robin. “We all knew we were putting a smile on someone’s face and making their difficult life a little less difficult.”
Headwall had almost 100% employee participation in purchasing new gifts for area children.
Headwall employees carrying gift bags to Our Father’s House transport truck
The corporate environment is always a bustling one: Getting and shipping orders, building sensors, designing new products, and maneuvering through a seemingly endless stream of meetings. But at Headwall, we take the opportunity to ‘give back’ to several central Massachusetts communities with families in need. This can range from assembling ‘personal care kits’ to cleaning and beautifying neighborhoods. This happens several times during the year, and is a part of Headwall's ongoing pledge to donate and contribute wherever possible to those less fortunate.
