Promoting Education

According to estimates, between 150 and 200 million migrant workers in China have moved from rural regions to the booming cities and coastal regions in recent years. For the children of these families, there is hardly any opportunity for a continuous education. To improve their prospects, the tesa plant in Suzhou has already been supporting the local “Sunshine School” since 2008. With scholarships, “assistant teachers”, joint learning, fundraiser bazaars and various leisure activities, the employees help pave the children’s way to a successful future. In October 2011 the plant awarded the “Sunshine Scholarship and Education Assistance Awards” for the fourth time. Here 60 children and their teachers experienced an exciting day in addition to gaining an interesting insight into the company and the world of adhesive tape.

Since 2006, tesa in India has been supporting the school for the “quarry children” of Yeleswaram by regularly taking on class sponsorships. With the aid of such donations, the children are able to attend the school constructed by the organization “wort und tat” in addition to receiving medical care. Without this assistance, they would have to slave away in the Yeleswaram quarry in Southern India for three euros a day – just like their parents and siblings, with whom they usually share a tiny mud hut. To help improve their chances for a better future, tesa took on the sponsorship of a class of around 60 boys and girls aged five to seven in 2011 via the foundation “Chancen für Kinder”.