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August 1st, 2011

BlogTV: Volunteers without borders

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Microfinance Sans Frontières is a project that matches eager volunteers, both working and retired, with microfinance institutions, or MFIs, around the world. The match is made on the basis of the needs to of the MFIs and the particular skills and schedules of the individuals involved.
How are these volunteers recruited? And how exactly does the [...]

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Isabelle Palsky

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July 20th, 2011

“Homework school” fills an educational gap

Thirty not-for-profit projects were selected during our recent call for applications, including the Ait-Zekri-Belgique association… [...]

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Saskiana Dotremont

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July 7th, 2011

Japan staff volunteer in the Tohoku region

26 members of staff joined the first BNP Paribas Tohoku volunteer activity from June 22 until June 25. After an overnight bus ride the group arrived in one of Japan’s most affected areas, Minamisanriku. The tsunami came inland as far as 4 kilometres, leaving devastation on a shocking scale. [...]

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Daniel Boyd

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July 6th, 2011

Project Bench Restoration in Regent’s Park

On 8 June, a team of seven members of our UK staff set off in the direction of Regent’s Park in London to take on Project Bench Restoration: part I of our summer park projects. [...]

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Monique Kleingunther

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July 4th, 2011

Two new vehicles for the Anaïs association in Morocco

In a presentation ceremony attended by representatives of Anaïs, Arval Morocco donated two Toyota Prados to the Anaïs association to assist it in carrying out its various projects. [...]

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Nabil Hamri

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June 29th, 2011

Creative Talent on display at the employees’ Summer Exhibition

Are you familiar with the Royal Academy of Arts’ Summer Exhibition? A highlight in the London art calendar, the event brings together a wide range of works by established, unknown and emerging artists.
For the first time this year, BNP Paribas in the UK wanted to replicate the exhibition among its employees [...]

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Monique Kleingunther

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June 22nd, 2011

Surprise announcement at Gay Pride Month kick-off event in New York

Imagine that you had to pay thousands of dollars in taxes on your spouse’s health benefits while the rest of your married officemates did not have to do so. [...]

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Jennifer Linn

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June 21st, 2011

The “I Volunteer” programme marks another milestone in Bahrain

The members of the “I Volunteer” team in Bahrain marked another milestone by leading a fun “EduArt” activity on June 2. The event was held at the Bahrain Rehabilitation Centre in Isa Town, which houses BNP Paribas’ Equal Possibilities Centre (BEPC), a facility dedicated to teaching office administration skills to individuals with disabilities that will [...]

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Tracy Elwick

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June 10th, 2011

Profile of an organization: “92 FoFo Niger”

92 FoFo Niger is an organization that assists the disadvantaged population of Niamey, the capital of Niger. It has 5 active and deeply committed core members, supported by about thirty additional members. The “Coup de pouce” (Helping Hand) programme is supporting a project to create a hospital wing for malnourished children at C.R.E.N.I. (the Intensive [...]

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