A few days ago, the ten-year public welfare education project “Bridgestone Happiness Tangram” entered Sixian County, Anhui Province. With the theme of “Building Youth Dreams Together”, it helped local students’ dreams through quality education and other courses. As a global partner of the Olympic Games, Bridgestone also specially invited Ye Shiwen, the swimming champion of the 2012 London Olympic Games and a member of the “Bridgestone Team”, to participate in the “Dream Open Class” (Chase Your Dream)” is passed on to children, encouraging them to bravely pursue their dreams.
The 2 primary schools to support teaching this time are located in Sixian County, Suzhou City, Anhui Province, with limited educational resources. More than 50% of the local students are left-behind children, who lack the care and companionship of their parents. In order to allow these children to enjoy quality education courses such as aesthetic education, this time, Bridgestone established a “growth classroom” for the local school and brought more than 2,000 pieces of teaching equipment and more than 2,000 extra-curricular reading materials. Volunteers actively carried out the “Second Classroom” teaching activities, encouraging children to discover beauty, create beauty, and embrace a more colorful juvenile life through courses such as literature, art, sports, and music. In addition, special courses such as traffic safety, Olympic general education, environmental protection, and artificial cardiopulmonary resuscitation were set up this year.
As Taihiro Morita, general manager of Bridgestone (China) Investment Co., Ltd. said: “Children are the future and hope of the country and society. We have been thinking about how to bring aesthetic enlightenment to children in rural China and protect their health. Growth. We hope that through the ‘Happiness Tangram’ project, we will call on the society to pay more attention to the growth education of rural children and jointly protect the dreams of teenagers.”
Bridgestone Donates Growth Classrooms to Local Primary Schools
Bridgestone volunteers teach traffic safety knowledge to children
It is worth mentioning that, as a volunteer teacher, Ye Shiwen taught students the knowledge of drowning prevention safety. In her spare time, she shares with the students her dream-chasing stories in her sports career, uses her real experience and insights to help the children understand the Olympic spirit more deeply, and encourages them to overcome difficulties and fight bravely.
When talking about the expectations for the children, Ye Shiwen said: “The power of dreams is always great. I hope that the children can bravely pursue their dreams, ride the wind and waves, and move forward with their dreams. At the same time, I also encourage everyone to actively participate in physical exercise, have Only a strong body can better face the challenges of the future and launch an impact towards one’s own goals.”
Ye Shiwen teaches children how to swim
In this teaching support activity, Bridgestone also held a dream poetry recitation competition, inviting professional literary volunteers to guide children to use imaginative poetry language to speak out their dreams and express their beautiful vision for the future. Morita Taibo and Ye Shiwen also participated in the award ceremony of the Dream Poetry Recitation Competition as volunteer representatives.
Local children recite dream poems
Morita Taibo and Ye Shiwen encourage children to pursue their dreams
Over the years, the “Bridgestone · Happiness Tangram” public welfare education activity has focused on the actual needs of children’s education in economically underdeveloped rural areas, and actively improved and optimized the form of activities. In the future, Bridgestone will continue to uphold the CSR concept of “Our Way to Serve”, practice corporate social responsibility, stay true to its original aspirations and forge ahead on the journey of public welfare.
