DT News - UK - Henry Schein offers underprivileged youngsters a helping hand

Dental Tribune International

Tue. 11 November 2014

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GILLINGHAM, UK: For decades, the Outward Bound Trust has provided young people from disadvantaged communities with educational programmes aimed at developing confidence and self-esteem through outdoor activities. Dental and medical equipment provider Henry Schein UK will sponsor more than 20 youths from the Brompton Academy near its company headquarters in Gillingham in Kent to take part in one of these courses.

Supported by two Outward Bound alumni and Henry Schein employees, the youngsters, aged 13–15, will attend an experimental wilderness programme held at the trust’s outdoor education centre in Aberdovey in Wales in November. There, they will be engaging in various outdoor activities that include problem-solving tasks, such as managing food resources.

“We recognise that helping the young people in our surrounding Gillingham community underscores Henry Schein’s commitment to creating a sustainable society, particularly by helping youth from communities that have been underserved, with empowering experiences,” Henry Schein Dental UK Managing Director Simon Gambold said. “Outward Bound courses have already produced many successes for children across the UK and we look forward to hearing of the personal triumphs when the group of young people we are sponsoring returns.”

Outward Bound says its courses are designed “to instill a sense of purpose, self-responsibility, adaptability, mastery and personal competence through interdependent peer group dynamics, providing renewed meaning and life direction in those emerging from the course”.

More than one million people have benefitted from the programmes, which originally started in 1941, according to the trust. This is the first time that the organisation is partnering with Henry Schein, or indeed a dental company. The company, one of the largest providers of dental and health care products in the world, supports and runs a number of other charity projects through its global corporate social responsibility programme.

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