Children have fun while learning at Salonpas Chiropractic Centre in KidZania, a work experience facility started by Hisamitsu Pharma Indonesia in 2012.
Hisamitsu is a Japanese pharmaceutical company which is famous for Salonpas brand pain relief patch.
Children come to the Chiropractic Center to learn about back pain and how to take care of bones.
George Aly Razi, Director, KidZania Jakarta, said: "KidZania is all about a location-based Edu-Tainment center, which is proposed to give some certain services to the children and their parents. KidZania gives the children of opportunity to play an active role as an adult in a daily-basis experience. Children will learn a lot, it's almost Edu-Tainment - education and entertainment. They play an active role as an adult, and they will experience the full cycle of economy with their own money, and they are doing so many simulations of the adult professions today."
Established in 1975, Hisamitsu Indonesia has been selling pain relief patches in the country. In 2012 it sold 500 million pain relief patches, and sales are growing.
Hisamitsu is contributing to improving the quality of life through education of children in Indonesia.
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