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April 30th, 2009

Tandem-Ski

Thierry Cattaneo, a BNP Paribas employee at Evian-Les Bains, has been one of the beneficiaries of the Helping Hand programme supported by the BNP Paribas Foundation .In the story below, he explains why he got involved with the AFEPA Association (Association de Familles d’Enfants Polyhandicapés) and how he sees tandem skiing developing in [...]

“Petals and the Garden of Nymph Ancolie” recaptures its original colours

The famous mural by Max Ernst “Petals and the Garden of the Nymph Ancolie”, which for many years adorned the walls of the Dancing Mascotte, a nightclub in Zurich’s Corso Theatre, underwent restoration in the latter part of 2008.
BNP Foundation in Switzerland is proud to have offered its support for this restoration project, which [...]

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Thierry Lagache

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April 29th, 2009

Microcredit: Anjana’s happy ending

The Bandhan Group, financed in part by BNP Paribas Microfinance, is an MFI (Microfinance Institution) that fights poverty by providing disadvantaged women with access to credit so that they can start their own businesses.
Bandhan Group is composed of two legal entities: an NGO and a non-banking finance company (a financial institution that offers banking services [...]

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Marie-Claude Rey Bafour

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April 29th, 2009

The Bulgarian “Resto du Coeur” (Soup Kitchen): season 2008/2009

The charitable project “Soup Kitchen” started during the winter season 2001/2002 on the initiative of the staff of BNP Paribas S.A. – Sofia Branch and in cooperation with Sofia Municipality. The project consists of daily providing of warm lunch to elderly and poor citizens in different districts throughout Sofia every winter workday from December to [...]

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Krasimira Antimova

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April 28th, 2009

A humanitarian convoy in Bosnia

For the third consecutive year, Arval supports the Equinox Association’s humanitarian convoy to Bosnia by lending the delivery vehicles for the convoy. The vehicles were provided by Arval’s Lyon branches. After a year of preparation, Equinox-affiliated university students at ESDES (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce et de Management de Lyon) travelled between 31 January and 8 [...]

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Myriam Garin

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April 28th, 2009

Teaming up with students for the Pi5NY Math Tournament

BNP Paribas USA is teaming up with the Department of Education, the Fund for Public Schools and The Urban Assembly School of Applied Math and Science to sponsor the Pi5NY Math Tournament: a city-wide, fun-spirited competition designed to excite and inspire New York City middle school students to excel at Math.
The event will be held [...]

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Esther Reid

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April 27th, 2009

Arval reduces the CO2 emissions of its vehicles … and of its drivers!

Every year, as part of its commitment to the environment, Arval, a subsidiary of BNP Paribas, reduces the carbon emissions for 2008 of the cars belonging to the company. But this time, Arval enhanced its efforts by increasing the carbon offset amount by 15% and to take into account actual emissions on the roads.
Arval France [...]

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Myriam Garin

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April 27th, 2009

One Day Out from the Orphanage

One Day Out from the Orphanage is a project of BNP Paribas S.A. – Sofia Branch which aims to support children, deprived of parental cares in social homes.
The socially disadvantaged background is considered to be one of the reasons for many problems orphans will face at school, in their communication with other persons, in [...]

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Krasimira Antimova

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April 24th, 2009

Hope Reading in Taiwan

For more than two years now, Cardif Taiwan has been participating in the “Hope Reading Program”. In October 2007, we began to sponsor “Zhong-Jiao” elementary school, one out of the 100 elementary schools selected by Common Wealth Magazine Education Foundation, the most influential books publisher group in Taiwan, who is also the organizer [...]