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December 11th, 2008 WOBURN, MA On December 1, as Thanksgiving gave way to the Christmas season, humankind marked World AIDS Day. At this conjunct of gratitude and gift-giving, Tocci chose to say thank you to our 2008 project clients and partners through a donation to the World Vision / Boston AIDS Africa partnership. The partnership formed to enable the greater Boston community to finance and assemble 1500 HIV/AIDS caregiver kits as a gift to Rwanda. Rwanda is one of the 15 Sub-Saharan countries of Africa where HIV/AIDS infects well over 10% of the population. It is a country where a child is orphaned every 14 seconds by parents succumbing to this ravaging disease. It is a country where 1 in 6 children will be mourned and buried before reaching age five. It is a country where an adult can expect to die, with AIDS a leading cause, long before middle age settles in. Unlike Boston, a world-renown capital of healthcare, the ill of Rwanda are cared for by family, friends and neighbors. These caregivers often provide daily ministrations—bathing, nourishment, companionship and what medicines they can—without benefit of hygienic gloves, antiseptic soaps, salves, washcloths or even a flashlight to guide a compassionate late night journey to visit the dying.

GOOD NEWS! Tocci funded over 160 of these caregiver kits and company volunteers spent Saturday, November 22, helping to assemble all 1500. Each kit contains the necessaries for basic, healthy care giving, a flashlight with batteries and pens and a notebook to document care. But, lest we forget to nourish the heart and soul too, each kit carries a handwritten note of thank you from the assembler to the recipient for keeping the light of love burning for a fellow human being. On that note—all of us at Tocci, and the care givers of Rwanda, thank our 2008 clients and partners for enabling this gift.

A partial group of the Tocci volunteers who helped assemble the caregiving kits with Princess Zulu and AIDS activist

DECEMBER 1st, 2008 WOBURN, MA On October 30, 2008, Tocci sponsored a breakfast fundraiser hosted by Parenting Resource Associates (PRA), a Lexington, MA, based non-profit providing services to homeless Massachusetts parents seeking support and guidance in becoming self-sufficient. Invited Tocci guests are partners in the Integrated Project Delivery program on-going for the new Autodesk East Coast Headquarters currently constructing in Waltham, MA.

Showcased at the PRA Breakfast was their COMPASS Community College Collaborative, developed in conjunction with the Massachusetts Community Colleges’ and welfare to work training programs.The COMPASS Community College Collaborative (CCCC), offers career and life skills training to homeless single mothers working to transition from shelter life to employment and permanent residences. Many of the mothers engaged in the CCCC program offered through Middlesex Community College, Lowell, MA, and Roxbury Community College are or were living in Waltham area shelters. Attendees were touched by an engaging video and first hand stories of struggle and hope from CCCC participants and graduates.

Tocci Building Corporation has a long history of good neighbor activism. The Company participates in select charitable and community development programs in the cities and towns it builds in. Invited Tocci guest and co-donor firms at the PRA Breakfast included Autodesk architect, KlingStubbins, Cambridge, MA; and vendor and subcontract firms J.C. Cannistraro, LLC, Watertown, MA; Interstate Electrical Services, North Billerica, MA; Tenant Systems, Shirley, MA; and Creative Office Pavilion, Boston, MA.

Attendees of the Breakfast Fundraiser including team members from Tocci’s Autodesk AEC HQ project in Waltham, MA

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