TES Annual Report

DOING WELL BY DOING GOOD

The concept of ‘Doing Well by Doing Good' was introduced by TES Foundation Chairman, Dr C V Chen, and is intended to encourage the TES community to contribute to make the world a better place, whether it be by protecting the environment, undertaking community service projects, or simply raising money for charities. All these altruistic endeavours, similar to our ‘ Story of Love ’ that brought the Taipei European School together 30 years ago, are things that benefit students, staff and the entire community to do well by continuously doing good things. Coming out of the pandemic has enabled the school to return to these principles in a proactive and practical way, and the theme of this TES 30th anniversary year was to ‘Do well by doing good’ in as many ways as we could. The school utilised the main school events and activities to do this. Money raised from the Autumn Festival went to earthquake relief in Hualien; the Christmas Bazaar supported the Bunnan tribe children by helping them to raise money to fulfil their dream of going overseas; ‘Coffee Kids’ provided money to a Ukrainian orphanage in Poland; and money was raised for a dog shelter for the ‘PACK’ charity. These are but a few examples, as each section also undertook their own actions with their students to do similar charity work. Below are further highlights. TES Sustainability Project A group of students from both primary and secondary presented the sustainability strategy to TES stakeholders on Thursday, 8 June 2023. The strategy was officially endorsed at the meeting. To develop the school’s approach, TES worked with CKP Sustainability Consultants to devise the strategy. The students consulted widely with numerous stakeholders to ensure the strategy would be relevant to our community. The aim of the strategy is to enable TES to move towards carbon neutrality and to play its part in addressing inequality issues related to sustainability in terms of socioeconomic, ecological and ethical factors. In developing the Taipei European School Sustainability Strategy, the students were invited to HSBC Taiwan’s offices in Nangang to receive feedback from the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Risk Officer, and Chief Sustainability Officer. The feedback the students received helped them to focus their strategy on goals that will make the most significant difference based on HSBC’s experience of what has had the biggest payoffs for them as a service sector business.

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