San Diego is My Home

06
Dec

The Gift Of iPods

Author: HelenKay, Category: All For Charity, Emergency Situations, People

Some people lost everything in the recent fires that raced through our area.  Houses, furniture, security - all gone.  Remember being a kid?  Remember how “your stuff” mattered to you?  Well,  someone at Apple must remember because the company donated nano video iPods to 100 fire victim high schoolers in Poway last week.   

Poway resident Steve Boyack helped with fire clean-up.  He remembered that with past fires the community acted with great generousity toward the victims.  Some donated items for toy drives.  Others held special events for parents.  Inadvertently lost in all altruism were the high school kids. So, Boyack contacted Apple CEO Steve Jobs for help.  And Apple responded.  Apple’s goal is to get iPods to all kids who were victims of area fires.  A pretty great goal.