Thermo Fisher Sponsored Yuxi Primary School to Participate in the “Sports for All” Games

Enhance Migrant Children’s Health in Mentality and Physique during the Sports

 

Shanghai, China (November 6, 2013) –Recently, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE:TMO), the world leader in serving science, sponsored Shanghai Yuxi primary school to participate in a special sports game, one part of a public welfare program - “Sports for All” organized by Shanghai Rugby Football Club. Totally 70 migrant students and their parents from Yuxi primary school and other schools in Shanghai participated in the games. Thermo Fisher tries to create more opportunities for migrant children to enjoy the fun of sports, to learn sport spirit like brave and perseverant, thereby gaining the health both in mentality and physique.

 

The game includes two parts - a football match and a rugby match, leading to improve students‘ knowledge of football and rugby. Before this game, these migrant students have been acceptting from club’s professional coaches the training on basic physic skills of this two sports activities for almost a whole year. Therefore, it was time for them to combine theory with practice through competing with other children. They showed great courage, endurance and teamship sprit, experiecing the joyness as well as the hardness from the game, although in the end they failed to achieve the champion.

 

“We have a great appreciation for Thermo Fisher’s bringing us this opportunity, ” the leader of the school’s team said, “It creates for our children a marvelous experience on playing sports game with other schools‘ students. What’s more important is that it comes to them the capacity of thinking and teamship. We losed the game, but these students learnt to face competition result with a positive atitude, they tried hard and finally conquered the sense of dissappointment from failure.”

 

Since November, 2010, Thermo Fisher began to sponsor the program “Sports for All”, and invited professional coaches of  Shanghai Rugby Football Club to teach Yuxi migrant students how to play football and rugby.

 

“We are proud of being a member of the ‘Sports for All‘ program,“ Mike Safter, Mike Safter, President China & Global Environmental & Process Monitoring Business said, “This is a good platform for Chinese sturdents to learn sports and build up their body. Advocating the idea - bring sport to school, we will keep carrying on the corporate social responsibility and practice more for public good! ”

 

“Sports for All” was initiated and organized by Shanghai Rugby Football Club in September, 2009; they utilize their 40 thousands square meters natural grass court and their systematic training project to provide the primary school’s students from different society background with some systematic sport courses. Thermo Fisher began to sponsor the program since 2010 with the goal to help more Chinese children obtain joy and health from sports activity.

Coach are training students from Yuxi Primary School

Students are playing the game

Students are presented the awards