Employee Spotlight: Keeping Community in Focus
For Claude, volunteering with organizations that support student success and connecting his colleagues to those organizations is a great way to pay it forward. Through his work with Hands On Hartford and Junior Achievement, Claude, VP and Workers Compensation Claim Lead at Travelers, has dedicated his time to help the next generation thrive.
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CLAUDE HOWARD:
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People wearing red Travelers T-shirts meet outdoors and speak to one another.
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One of the best ways to connect with the community and meet new people is through community service. A lot of the organizations that I have volunteered for have benefited me as I was growing up.
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A red umbrella logo. Travelers. Text: Giving back: Claude Howard.
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Students that are trying to learn, they're worried about being hungry, how are they going to learn the right way?
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A sign outside of a business says: Hands On Hartford, Caring in Action. Inside, people fill backpacks with food items.
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So with Hands on Hartford, they specifically have a program for students that give them a backpack at the end of the week so that they have meals throughout the weekend.
Many of the students that are going to schools right in Hartford, their only meal might be coming through school.
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Howard walks through a school's hallways. He and a colleague speak to a classroom of kids.
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My involvement Junior Achievement has lasted many, many years when I was just volunteering to help out in classrooms and activities like Junior Achievement in a day. You learn to interact with different viewpoints that will help you with your personal bias, and it's empowering, it feels good and I know that we're doing good back in the community. I'm really proud to be part of an organization that focuses in on the community the way that Travelers does.
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