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June 1st, 2009

Even a small contribution can make a difference

Enrique Díaz-Barceló is a BNP Paribas Spain employee , taking care of the relationship management of Spanish insurance companies and foreign banks in Spain. He received funding from Apoyamos tus ideas, the Coup de Pouce project of BNP Paribas Spain, for his involvement with Missioneros Combonianos. This is a religious order very active in the [...]

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Dimitrina Todorova

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May 27th, 2009

Solidarity Handicap (SH92)

The association Solidarity Handicap SH92 was created and run by parents of handicap children. It aims at providing different kinds of activities for the children and at training their parents to be better prepared to take care of their children.
Muriel Kimmerlin and Jean-Pierre Boussard, employees of BNP Paribas France, are active members of [...]

Creation of a school in Togo

On the occasion an exchange program and two trips to Togo, Sylvie Blanchard, financial advisor of BNP Paribas France, and her husband came across the project of a creation of a school. Touched by the energy and will of the local people, they decide to devote themselves to help realize this project. They [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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Dimitrina Todorova

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March 31st, 2009

“London to Paris Cycle Race 2009’’: three teammates are working up a sweat!

Glenn Anderson, David O’Flynn and Timothy Parker from BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking team in London provide ceaseless support to their friend and colleague Stuart Mangan, who has been paralysed since April 5th, 2008.
The victim of a catastrophic rugby injury, Stuart is completely paralyzed from the neck down and unable to breathe without a [...]

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Talbot Stark

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March 11th, 2009

Finding the way to school

For the first time last year, the association “Les Amis de Viisoara” ( Friends of Viisoara) received funding in the framework of BNP Paribas’ “Helping hand” program, designed to help finance employees’ charity initiatives. Christine Mille, BNP Paribas employee and treasurer of the association since its foundation, shares with us her experience.
In 1992 Marcelle Pleynet, a close friend [...]