Taipei Times
Date: Jan 01, 2019
By: Chen Feng-li and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Hushan Elementary School in Nantou County’s Caotun Township (草屯) on Thursday
Students and teachers participate in a rope-skipping challenge at Hushan Elementary School in Nantou County’s Caotun Township on Thursday last week.
Photo: Chen Feng-li, Taipei Times
last week completed a 10 million rope-skips challenge, raising NT$80,000 to foster creativity in children and for books.
It was the second such event after the school’s rope-skipping challenge the previous semester, when it received NT$1 for every lap of the school’s 200m track a student or faculty member completed while skipping, the school said.
It raised NT$100,000 from the Lotus Light Charity Society in Taiwan over the semester, it said.
A bonus was that children with obesity slimmed down while smaller students became more fit from the skipping, the school said, adding that the exercise had also helped students focus on their studies. [FULL STORY]
