DonorTec Impact | Seniors have Access to safe and confident living
The Rosebud Police Senior Citizens Register Incorporated (RPSCRI) www.rosebudseniors.websyte.com.au is a charity organisation manned entirely by volunteers, and relies entirely on fundraisers and donations. Some of the many important functions RPSCRI performs include making elderly people feel safer, minimising the fear of crime amongst the elderly and increasing the awareness of elderly people to their own safety and security.
To aid in their service proviision RPSCRI maintains a register comprising more than 4000 senior residents of the Mornington Peninsula. They keep a database of important personal information for each of their senior clients which is of great assistance to emergency services when the need arises.
The database for this register is now run using "Access" from their donated Microsoft Office Professional suite of products. As a result information workers are now able to track and report information more reliably. Marie Parkinson from RPSCRI says "The Microsoft donated software has been a great asset to our organisation as it has provided a simple answer to our needs."
RPSCRI also publish newsletters; produce Word documents and PowerPoint presentations for seminars and training purposes. Using the donated Microsoft software now ensures a consistent and professional appearance.
As the donated Microsoft software came with Software Assurance, RPSCRI will likely be upgrading to the 2010 version of the Office Professional package, at no extra cost. This will mean volunteers will have access to the latest versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher and Visio.
"The people who work on our register and computers are most grateful to Microsoft for making this software available to us," says Marie. "Thank you DonorTec for making this possible - every bit of help we can get is just terrific."
