Serving Our Communities

While contributing to patients and healthcare professionals through its core business, the Terumo Group also engages in social contribution activities as a good corporate citizen based on its Group mission of “Contributing to Society through Healthcare.” We aim to help achieve a sustainable society by gaining a deeper understanding of the society, culture, and environment of each country and region and by pursuing activities that meet the expectations and demands of communities, mainly in our work to support the spread and development of healthcare.

Supporting the Spread and Development of Healthcare

Investing in the Communities Where Our Associates Live and Work

Addressing Blood Donation Shortages

Contributing to our mission extends into the communities where our associates live and work. A safe, accessible and sustainable blood supply is everyone’s responsibility. Our Blood Donation Awareness Program, “From the Heart,” hosts blood drives around the world to combat blood shortages and raise awareness of the important need for blood donors to keep inventory at a safe level.

Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies associates around the world actively participating in blood donation drives

Partnering With Mission-Driven Non-Profit Organizations

We’re a corporate donor for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the largest nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a world without blood cancers. Since 2007, we have raised more than USD$1.9 million in support of LLS, and each year those donations represent 20% of the LLS Rocky Mountain Chapter’s revenue. We also donate time, resources, and funds to The Action Center of Jefferson County, a non-profit providing “immediate and compassionate response to those in our community experiencing hardship.” Each year, our teams in Lakewood, Colorado, donate supplies for meal kits to be delivered during the Thanksgiving holiday season, and we offer our facility’s parking areas to be used to organize a drive-through delivery of those meal kits. In 2022, we also supported many other activities at The Action Center throughout the year, such as buying essential items to fill 100 backpacks for community members in need.

Associates who participated in the Light the Night hosted by the LLS

Drive-through delivery of meal kits conducted during the Thanksgiving holiday season

Backpack program for people in need in the community

Supporting Early Diagnosis of Children With Congenital Heart Disease in India

Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are conditions that are present at birth and can affect the structure of a baby’s heart and the way it works. It is a neonatal birth defect due to abnormal development of the heart that could involve the interior walls, the valves inside the heart, or the arteries and veins that carry blood to the heart or the body. CHD affects approximately nine out of 1,000 newborn children and is one of the leading causes of infant mortality. Around 90% of CHD-affected children can be treated if diagnosed early, even more if the disorder is detected before birth. 
Terumo India has partnered with two non-profit organizations, namely Aishwarya Trust and Artemis Health Sciences Foundation (“Implementing Agencies”), to implement and support the CHD Programme. Under the CHD programme, Terumo India collaborates with the Implementing Agencies to raise awareness about CHD and to support CHD treatment for underprivileged children. 
Aishwarya Trust and Artemis Health Sciences Foundation organize various camps in the remote areas of Southern and Northern region of India to detect the children who are suffering from CHD. Terumo India, also, takes part in these screening camps organized by these Implementing Agencies to identify the children at an early stage to contribute to lessen their pain.

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  Screening camps for CHD in children

Sponsorship for Nursing Day and Nursing Week Activities

Terumo provided sponsorship for Nursing Day and Nursing Week activities implemented throughout Japan by the Japanese Nursing Association (JNA) and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) from May 7 until May 13, 2023. 
Currently, Nursing Day and Nursing Week is being held to promote nursing as an attractive career to the younger generation, as well as their parents and teachers, with the aim of securing the nursing workforce in an aging society with a declining birth rate. Terumo has continued to provide sponsorship to this initiative since its inception and this year marks 33 consecutive years of support. 
Nursing Day and Nursing week were instituted in 1990 by what was then the Ministry of Health and Welfare. Nursing Day is celebrated every year on May 12, which was the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. The period of one week from Sunday to Saturday that includes May 12 is designated as Nursing Week. 
Terumo agrees with the purpose of the Nursing Day and Nursing Week activities, and by supporting these activities, we are able to make a contribution to society through healthcare.

TERUMO LIFE SCIENCE FOUNDATION

TERUMO LIFE SCIENCE FOUNDATION—Contributing to Improvements in Medicine and in the Health of All People through the Advancement of Life Science Technologies

The TERUMO LIFE SCIENCE FOUNDATION was established through contributions by Terumo Corporation in 1987 with the aim of contributing to improvements in medicine and in the health of all people through the advancement of life science technologies. The foundation focuses its activities on three areas: subsidies for domestic and overseas research and development programs for creating technologies in the field of life science, awards for promising researchers that have made outstanding achievements in the field of medical-engineering collaboration and integration, and educational activities to share the appeal of life science with younger generations. 
Targets of subsidies include research and development projects for creating new value in medical settings in Japan and for improving healthcare and public hygiene in developing countries. In addition, subsidies are provided to fund social contribution activities and workshops for enhancing medicine and healthcare levels. In fiscal 2022, subsidies totaling ¥360 million were provided to 181 projects. 
Awards for researchers include the Tai Morishita Memorial Award in the hope that it will provide an opportunity for more talented people to enter the field of medical-engineering collaboration and integration. 
Educational activities include the operation of the Life Sciences DOKIDOKI Laboratory website, which is mainly intended for junior high and high school students. The site provides young users— leaders of the future—with the basic knowledge required to understand life sciences as well as information from the front lines of life science fields presented in an easy-to-understand format. In March 2023, a book of cartoon content was published, which we started as a series of comic strips to promote interest in the life sciences among a broader range of age groups. 
The TERUMO LIFE SCIENCE FOUNDATION will continue such initiatives going forward with the aim of contributing to the improvement of medicine and healthcare.

TERUMO LIFE SCIENCE FOUNDATION