Press Launch: August 4, 2022

By: Scott Jester

HOPE, AR. – There have been smiles throughout as ROC Enterprises of Rainbow of Challenges, Inc. obtained a donation verify of $40,000 from Tyson Meals of Hope.

The casual presentation was held within the assembly room on the Melon Patch restaurant in downtown Hope and was the results of a co-op between ROC dealing with the recycling duties of the various cardboard packing containers that amass on the Tyson plant positioned north of Hope.

“This donation will assist our recycling program tremendously,” mentioned ROC Enterprises-Day Providers Coordinator Michelle Witherspoon. “We have now been ready so as to add one other (cardboard) baler, so we must always be capable to atone for all of the cardboard and keep forward of it.”

Witherspoon is hopeful this connection between ROC and Tyson might serve for example of companies serving to others in the neighborhood as a way to enhance Hope and surrounding space as a complete.

“Since COVID, we’ve doubled our tonnage of cardboard. So many issues are being shipped and the tip outcomes are extra packing containers.

“So, possibly different companies will turn out to be concerned and add their assist of our recycling program as a way to enhance our neighborhood.

“If we are able to’t recycle it, the packing containers wind up within the landfill.  It’s different companies investing in a program that can, in flip, assist these companies with a much-needed service.

“And, all of it comes again to serving to our people who’ve a incapacity who work right here or that we serve. These guys are overjoyed to return to work right here every day,” Witherspoon concluded. “They don’t name in sick, they don’t miss days of labor. They’re devoted to their jobs and love being right here. It tells us there’s a distinction between our staff and others.”

Rainbow of Challenges’ CEO Judy Watson echoed Witherspoon. “We’re so happy to obtain this donation from Tyson Meals,” she mentioned. “It exhibits how we’re serving the neighborhood in a giant method by our recycling program and this donation will definitely assist with growing productiveness.”

Tyson complicated supervisor Randy King made the presentation of the verify and had supportive remarks behind the donation.

“Three years in the past, ROC started taking our cardboard after the quantity was simply overwhelming to the middle in Nashville,” he started. “We went to work with Michelle and now we’re capable of hold it out of the landfill. So, we’re retaining it out of the landfill whereas serving to these guys right here at ROC.”

“That is an superior win-win for everybody,” King exclaimed. “The door is all the time open with us and ROC. It’s an excellent partnership, one that’s nice for the neighborhood too.”

Rainbow of Challenges, Inc. (ROC) is a personal, non-profit, community-based supplier of an enormous array of helps and providers for kids and adults with developmental disabilities. Rainbow of Challenges is an equal alternative supplier and employer.