CHENGDU, China, May 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, before the eighth Children's Day after the Wenchuan earthquake, Zhuwa Primary School in Pidu District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province and Nestle Company successfully held the 8th Art Festival of Zhuwa Primary School. More than 40 outstanding staff representatives of Nestle and its joint ventures together with the teachers and students of Zhuwa Primary School enjoyed the happy time.
The theme of "Enjoying learning, staying health and growing up together" was followed throughout activities of the festival. Nestle employees participated in a variety of interactive activities with teachers and students in all classes to help children understand the world outside the school in multiple ways and dimensions. The students expressed the happiness and beauty they felt in study and life via clay sculpture, singing and dancing, vocal music and other talent shows.
Painting and reading are indispensable good habits of children. To this end, Nestle staffs had made elaborate preparations for this art festival. "Spring Bud Club" spontaneously organized by Nestle staff actively encouraged their children to exchange paintings with children in Zhuwa Primary School, and Nestle trade union called on staffs to donate useful books to the children in Zhuwa and Nestle employees also wrote good wishes on the carefully selected books.
The Art Festival invited Uncle Sihu, a children's literature writer to tell stories to the children. Uncle Sihu told the children a fairy tale "A Half Man" created by himself: a man was split into two people with exactly the opposite personalities and mentalities, how should he tackle such inner contradictions and conflicts? How should he face the troubles in growth? The children learned about the secret of developing a healthy personality and mentality in the laughter: to be open, tolerant, integrated and progressive.
Many dietary experts had suggested that children should get involved in cooking to inspire their interest in food and encourage them to develop good habits of reducing picky eating and eliminating food-wasting. Therefore, the Art Festival specifically set up an open class "Small Chef Training Camp". Nestle invited Wu Jing, the head chef of Millennium Hotel Chengdu, and she led the children to make healthy and delicious salads with colorful vegetables. The simple production method was also very easy for children to use at home.
A special link was arranged in this year's Art Festival: representatives of teachers and students from Zhuwa Primary School and Jiasikong Primary School in Daofu County, Sichuan Province jointly held the ceremony for "drinking healthy water". After the Wenchuan Earthquake in 2008, Nestle donated a set of water purification equipment to Zhuwa Primary School to meet the needs of teachers and students for drinking clean water after the disaster. Inspired by this, Zhuwa Primary School passed this love to Jiasikong Primary School this year. Limited by the conditions, teachers and students of Jiasikong Primary School had been drinking raw water. After learning this situation, Zhuwa Primary School donated the same type of water purification equipment to Jiasikong Primary School to improve their drinking water hygiene conditions.
"Children are our future. As a leader in the field of nutrition and health, Nestle is committed to caring for the physical and mental health of children," said Mr. Rashid, Chairman and CEO of Nestle Greater China, "Over the past 150 years, Nestle has been committed to creating shared value for all the related parties and the society. The outstanding employees of Nestle and its joint ventures that came to the event each year can experience Nestle's business philosophy and become the witness and practitioner of 'creating shared value'. This year is the ninth year Nestle has helped Zhuwa Primary School and several hundred children have already become the families that Nestle employees are always concerned about. We are also very pleased to see that the children of Zhuwa Primary School can pass love to and care for others."
During the Wenchuan Earthquake in 2008, Zhuwa Primary School in Pidu District, Chengdu was seriously damaged, Nestle and its staffs generously donated money to help reconstruction of the main building of the school. Since then, in order to practice the concept of "creating shared value" as always, Nestle decided to support Zhuwa Primary School in the long term, and organized outstanding employees to participate in related activities in Zhuwa each year so as to effectively combine public welfare activities with employee motivation. In the past nine years, Nestle, along with leaders and teachers of the primary school, has carried out a series of support programs and incentive activities such as the annual Nestle Three Goods Scholarship and the Nestle Incentive Award, providing modernized teaching facilities and establishing nutrition and health room and so on. All these efforts not only let the children of Zhuwa Primary School always feel the greetings and care from the society, but also provide a platform for the Nestle employees to pay back the society. Now, Zhuwa Primary School has developed from an ordinary rural primary school to a "Level-A school of comprehensive assessment of education in Pidu District".
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