Volunteering Across Geographies: From Code to Classrooms and U&I Summer Camp
In 2025, more than 170 individuals from the global UiPath community of employees volunteered with UiPath Foundation. They came from 11 countries, including Romania, India, the United States, Japan, Germany, Australia, and the Netherlands, volunteering their time, skills, and ideas for a shared mission. Together, they gifted us with more than 8,700 hours of support for our programs. That’s roughly 1,000 working days dedicated to helping children learn, grow, and dream a little bigger.
This community spans multiple borders and time zones, yet works toward a common goal. Some of them work directly with children, like during the U&I Summer Camps, delivering periodic support packages, or via interactive online sessions, inspiring and teaching new things to the kids. Others join our volunteering community remotely, designing data systems, automating reports, or building digital tools that keep our programs running. What connects them is a belief that distance doesn’t limit impact; that technology can bring care closer, not push it further away.
Each of their stories of volunteering adds a new link between a community of people who might never have met otherwise. Together, they form a quiet but powerful network; one that shows how shared purpose travels faster than borders. We asked eight of them to answer a question and help our community understand what volunteering is like when geography is no longer a barrier. Four of them worked directly with middle school children in the most fun-filled week of the year, the U&I Summer Camp.
Two support the Foundation’s digital backbone, wrapping our data in several layers of security and building agents to help teens navigate our programs more easily. And the last two work with and for high school students, teaching them the basics of coding with Python as a part of the Path to Code Level 2 course
Their reflections reveal what volunteering means in a world where human connection often begins with a screen.
U&I Summer Camp
Holly Tripp
U&I Summer Camp volunteer
Tell us about a moment that caught you off guard, something small that stayed with you.
A moment that caught me off guard was when I really realized that me and the other International volunteer were actually going to be leading the session on Global Landmarks; I was so nervous! But then to see how much the children engaged and participated, was so rewarding. I learned that by showing up for the children, they respond with a similar positive attitude. We were able to create positive camp memories and be role models of how to lead.
Something small that stayed with me was during an evening game-playing session. I joined a table of children who were a little shy and needed help getting a group and games, going. I helped them to get rolling with some games, as I thought a good volunteer should do, and then sat back quietly to watch. But maybe I was too quiet and shy with my inability to speak Romanian, because after a few minutes with their limited English, the children asked me to join in the game with them. I was touched by their interest to be inclusive of us volunteers, and we had some great laughs while playing too!
Celina Tang
U&I Summer Camp volunteer
What did you learn about yourself by helping someone else?
Spending a week teaching English and sharing a bit of Australia with the beautiful kids reminded me that confidence is not a one time achievement. You have to keep rebuilding it as life throws you around. They taught me how powerful it is to just show up, be present, and genuinely care. The smallest moment, a smile, a bit of encouragement, even a silly joke, can shift someone’s whole day. And it shifted mine too.
Kohei Ikeda
U&I Summer Camp volunteer
If someone told you they don’t have the time or skills to volunteer, what would you say?
Volunteering doesn’t necessarily require a lot of time or special skills. What matters most is the desire to help those you wish to support and facing them directly.
I also had no overseas volunteer experience and felt some anxiety before joining the camp. When I learned English and foreign cultures from my English teachers in school, I felt my world had expanded a little. That’s why I participated with the hope that I could give back even a little of my own experience to someone else’s learning and growth.
Even spending just a few days with them, witnessing their growth was truly remarkable. I wanted them to feel something from me too. With some support from other volunteers, the communication came naturally. By then, my anxiety had vanished.
So, you don’t need to worry. The very fact that you’re interested in volunteering is the first step toward that challenge. That feeling will surely become the driving force to help someone or move their heart.
Geet Agarwal
U&I Summer Camp volunteer
What’s something a child said or did that you still think about?
During one of my volunteering sessions, I met a Romanian boy who really left an impression on me. He came up to me and asked if we could talk because he’d heard I was an engineer. He was so genuinely curious — wanting to know what education in India is like, what kind of work I do, and how I became an engineer.
He told me he loved science and spent a lot of time doing little experiments at home. He had a small garden where he tried growing different seeds, and he had even attempted a simple rainwater harvesting setup. He also mentioned he couldn’t play sports much because of some back issues, so he put all that extra time into exploring ideas and learning new things.
What really stayed with me was how he turned his challenges into creativity and curiosity. Even with limited resources, he kept experimenting, questioning, and imagining. It reminded me of the spark that made me choose engineering — that sense of wonder about how things work. His enthusiasm genuinely inspired me, and it’s something I still think about.
The Digital Innovation Taskforce
Cristina Iacobescu
Cybersecurity Expert
How do you connect emotionally to a cause when your contribution happens behind the scenes?
I’m a natural empath and a bit of a social butterfly, so even when my work happens behind the scenes, I still feel deeply connected to the cause. When I joined the Security project for the UiPath Foundation—after being gently tossed to the sharks—I knew I had to rise to the challenge. Luckily, I wasn’t alone. The team around me worked with such dedication that it felt like we were all part of the same invisible orchestra, each playing our part flawlessly.
I’m someone who instinctively trusts people and sees the best in those I work with. That made the project even more meaningful, because every task felt like a shared mission. And honestly, the satisfaction of knowing we helped keep kids safe—protected their devices, their data, their little digital worlds—is unmatched.
I like to think of us as security fairies. You don’t always see us, but you can definitely feel the magic. And when you show up wholeheartedly, sprinkle your expertise around, and know your contribution matters… well, that’s where the joy really comes from.
Arindam Chatterjee
Azurel 2.0 Developer
Has this experience changed the way you think about what technology can do for social good?
Before volunteering, I viewed technology primarily as a tool for business efficiency and innovation. However, working closely with the admin team and understanding the challenges faced by students from disadvantaged backgrounds has been truly eye-opening. Seeing how the UiPath Foundation supports them on this journey reinforced for me that technology isn’t just about progress, it’s about inclusion.
Over the past year, I have collaborated with the team as if I were part of their own, working together to identify ways technology can make a meaningful impact on students’ lives. One example is developing a conversational AI agent to answer queries about courses, with plans to extend its capabilities to address basic curriculum-related questions. This initiative is not only about improving operational efficiency but also about introducing AI to the next generation in a responsible, controlled manner, providing a state-of-the-art service that enhances their learning experience. This experience has deepened my belief that technology, when applied thoughtfully, can be a powerful enabler of opportunity and equity.
Path to Code Level 2
Diana Ionescu
Instructional Designer
What motivates you to keep offering your skills, even when the results aren’t immediately visible?
Volunteering, for me, means the opportunity to give the best of myself to society. The results are not always immediately visible, but they have never been the main thing that kept me going. A hidden smile or simply the thought that I’ve managed to plant a seed in someone’s mind or soul, that will one day grow at the right time, is enough for me to move forward.
Moreover, I believe that skills gain their true value when they are shared. An unshared talent is a wasted one; how sad would the world be if a painter kept their art to themselves? For me, volunteering is the space where I can offer my skills to the community, with the hope that they’ll do some good, even if that good isn’t immediately visible.
Vlad Coteanu
Path to Code Trainer
How does knowing that your class instantly reaches and impacts kids hundreds of kilometres away shape the way you think about volunteering?
There has never been a better time to give back to the community than being a trainer in the Digital Skills program this year.
I enjoy teaching, and knowing that I can share my knowledge with students across the country brings me a profound sense of fulfilment. I believe that through our online classes, we offer our students a powerful visualization of a different future — one that expands beyond what they see in their everyday lives.