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Title: Concordia Shanghai Named Winner of International School Award 2025
China, 21st Feb 2025 – Concordia International School Shanghai has been honored with the International School Award 2025 for its student-run social enterprise, Xiaohusai, which has been making a difference in China’s southwestern Yunnan province. The school is named one of the 14 winners of the award this year, out of nearly 200 applications worldwide. (Concordia International School Shanghai wins an International School Award, honoring its commitment to community service. ) Hosted by ISC Research, the International School Awards celebrate strategic initiatives at international schools that showcase great learning, innovation, and community participation. These initiatives are rooted in central pillars that support intercultural understanding, diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice, as well as one or more of the UN SDGs (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals). Xiaohusai is a prime example of Concordia’s service learning outcomes. Named after the small village in rural Yunnan, the social enterprise was founded and has been run by a group of Concordia students since 2016. Partnering with a local Shanghai company, they procure organic tea from Yunnan farmers at fair market prices, pack and sell it. Their goal is to guarantee local farmers receive fair pay for their tea, in return, allowing them to better support their children’s education and improve life in the village.Since its conception, Xiaohusai has impacted around 1,000 people of the village, and directly supported six families through scholarships especially funding for the local girls’ education.Every year, fresh faces from Concordia’s high school body join the Xiaohusai crew, and the student-run organization gets schoolwide support to tell the story of Xiaohusai village...
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