The Hope for Haiti Now telethon airing Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. will have a bit of Greater Sudbury in it.
According to Judy Clayton, manager of human capital at TeleTech in Sudbury, more than 60 TeleTech employees in Greater Sudbury have volunteered their time to help answer phones for the event.
TeleTech is providing technical infrastructure and 5,000 employees from its operations around the globe to take calls from donors who want to help Haitians.
Forty-two centres across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Australia, Philippines, South Africa, and Costa Rica, plus TeleTech's home-based operators are being used to staff the lines.
"On behalf of our employees around the globe, we want to express our sincere sympathy to those impacted by this tragedy," Kenneth Tuchman, TeleTech chair and CEO, said in a press release.
TeleTech has assisted in the 2005 Shelter from the Storm fundraiser held to assist people impacted by Hurricane Katrina.
TeleTech has been open in Greater Sudbury since June 1999 and is located in the Rainbow Centre on Elm Street. The company employs about 400 employees in its local operations, and over 45,500 globally.
