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Children act up with Piccolo Opera

Thanks to the BNP Paribas Foundation’s Coup de Pouce (Helping Hand) program, a young boy, 8 years old, has been attending the opera school for two years with diligence and great motivation. He’s a “man” of the theatre: he enjoys playing “Falstaff” by Verdi, who, hidden in a basket of dirty laundry to escape the [...]

BNP Paribas Fortis Foundation launches the Help2Help programme

The new Belgian entity “BNP Paribas Fortis Foundation” (born of the union of 14 years’ experience at Fortis Foundation Belgium and the values of the BNP Paribas group) has launched its first programme: Help 2 Help. [...]

Socompetent.fr, a completely free person-to-person internet job site

SoCompetent is a public-spirited, person-to-person employment website – and it’s completely free.

We created SoCompetent because we believe that each of us has many skills that are all-too-often underused. Our talents can be put to good use in all fields (plumbing, babysitting, mechanics, gardening, cleaning, consulting, short courses, etc.) and this is true regardless of our [...]

« Coup de Pouce » by BMCI

BMCI Foundation, with the program “Coup de Pouce”, wants to support initiatives of general interest and solidarity handled by associations having the bank’s employees as volunteers.
Taking in consideration that everything start with people, BMCI Foundation has developed “Coup de Pouce” in order to enhance employees’ involvement in social responsibility and cultural concerns since 20 [...]

The pleasure of creating mutual trust

Hervé COATANER, aged 50, has been with Group BNP Paribas Personal Finance (originally Cetelem) since 1987. He currently works in the recently established Operations Department of BNP Paribas Personal Finance Central Functions, and more specifically, in the Sales Effectiveness Department. And for some time now, he has worked with a charitable association as a volunteer. [...]

“Let's adopt a peace attitude”

I’m Italian and I’ve been working in Cash Management at BNP Paribas since 2006. I’ve been living in France for the past six years and did part of my studies in Paris.
My first name is not what you’d call a “classic” Italian name, but is of Greek origin. In Greek, Irene means “peace”, so perhaps [...]

Integration in Belgium

My name is Chantal Carpay and I have been working for the LC and guarantee department of BNP Paribas Brussels for 2 and a half years. I became involved with the association Zephyr at the end of 2008.
Zéphyr aims to address all the issues concerning the integration of people in Belgian society, mainly on a [...]

Open minds in creating change in Peru

Javier Rodriguez is an employee of BNP Paribas Spain working in Corporate Finance. He has recently received funding from “Apoyamos tus ideas”, a corporate social responsibility program supporting employees’ initiatives. In this interview, he talks about his experience and personal motivation to get involved with the association Zabalketa.
Could you please present the [...]

Princesses and Dreamers in Guatemala

Cédric Sottiaux, an employee at BNP Paribas Luxembourg, has been one of the beneficiaries of the Helping Hand for Employees’ Projects programme supported by the BNP Paribas Foundation, for his involvement in the MOJOCA association (Movement for Street Children in Guatemala). Founded in 1989, the organization aims to promote the education and social and [...]