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April 22nd, 2009

TEB's Educated Girls on stage

Türk Ekonomi Bankası (TEB), BNP Paribas’ strategic partner in Turkey, received 1500 guests for TEB Innovation Summit TEB, on Monday, April 14th at the Maslak TIM Center in Istanbul. The Summit opened with a concert of the TEB Band.
The band is composed of girls participating in TEB’s social responsibility program, called “Educated Girls”.
“TEB’s Educated Girls” [...]

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Buket Ulucay Eroglu

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April 21st, 2009

The launch of Goodplanet.info: understanding the environment and its challenges

After the success of the exhibition “6 Billion Others” in Paris, another project by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, developed with the support of BNP Paribas, is growing increasingly popular.
Welcome to Goodplanet.info, a web portal created in parallel with the association goodplanet.org whose slogan is “understanding the environment and its challenges”. The aims of the project [...]

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Galdric Pons

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April 16th, 2009

50 children invited to the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters for free

On 11th of April, 2009 Mr. Patrick Gherara, Head of BNP Paribas agencies in Moncaco, intived 50 children from the association « Les Enfants de Frankie » ( The children of Frankie) to spend a day at the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters tennis tournament, sponsored by BNP Paribas.
The children had a chance to see live some [...]

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Dimitrina Todorova

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April 16th, 2009

A touch tour of the Byzantine and Christian Museum

The Byzantine and Christian museum in Athens is now accessible to vision impaired people, thanks to the financial support of BNP Paribas Greece. But what does it really feel like to visit a museum, if one is deprived of sight? We can only begin to understand the world of vision impaired [...]

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Dimitrina Todorova

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April 14th, 2009

A "Green Sunday" at Marathon, Greece

On Sunday April 5th, 2009, BNP Paribas Greece organised a tree planting event at Marathon. Situated around 45 km from Athens, this place of historical significance gave the name of the long distance run that is today known as “marathon”.
The employees gathered with their families, and planted more than 300 trees, in an area, which [...]

Actions: Environment

Anne Garcin

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April 10th, 2009

Make a donation to help the victims of the earthquake in Italy

On 6 April 2009 an earthquake of a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter scale occurred in the central italian region of Abruzzo. The majority of the damage occurred in the medieval city of L’Aquila (capital city of the Abruzzo region) and the surrounding villages.
The earthquake caused damage to many buildings and several of them [...]

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Nabila Chibane

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April 10th, 2009

A day to overcome our prejudices

BNP Paribas Foundation in Switzerland, organized an all-day event devoted to the “Helping Hand” program. The event took place in on March 9th, in the auditorium la Corrateriere in Geneva, and had three main objectives:
•To acknowledge the work of the employees already taking part in the “Helping Hand” for whom volunteering has become a [...]

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Thierry Lagache

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April 9th, 2009

Future in colors for ethnic minority children in China

Beatrice Rats, from the Marketing Department of BNP Paribas Personal Finance in France, has recently received sponsorship from the program Helping Hand of the Cetelem Foundation.
The funding will be to the benefit of the association “Couleur de Chine” (Colors of China) which operates in the region of the great mountains Miaos du Guangxi, mainly [...]

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Leslie Posada

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April 8th, 2009

How to make a lasting change for the children of Tizayuca

Bertrand Gacon, BNP Paribas Wealth Management in Switzerland, is one of the founding members of the association “Tizayuca “. Named after a small village in Mexico, the association has received for two years in a row funding from the Helping Hand programme. Its activity compliments that of a local Mexican private association, Las Rosas Rojas, [...]