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Bringing comfort to flood victims in Vietnam

Central Vietnam is regularly affected by floods. But this year has been exceptionally sad, with torrential rain bringing the floods to levels not been seen for decades to some of the poorest regions of the country… [...]

BlogTV: “Pasteurdon” 2010

Each year, the Pasteur Institute for medical research opens its doors to the public for the “Pasteurdon” fundraising campaign. On October 23rd and 24th across France, the Institute’s museum, laboratories, and a variety of scientific workshops and conferences were open to the public. The BlogTV team was there to find out what the “Pasteur spirit” [...]

Car Wash Marathon in Singapore

BNP Paribas Singapore teamed up once again with the Handicaps Welfare Association (HWA) for their Car Wash Marathon. This charity fund-raising event, which took place on Saturday, 8 May 2010, was a continuous 12-hour marathon car wash, conducted in three shifts, organised by HWA in an effort to improve the lives of the 1,700 members [...]

Charity Challenge for Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research

BNP Paribas Real Estate has shown its commitment to helping beat blood cancer by announcing a two year charity partnership with Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research in the UK.
The commercial property company has a series of fundraising events planned in order to raise a substantial amount for Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research – the only UK [...]

Silver Coin campaign: An endowment into the lives of children with Down's Syndrome

In the heart of every human being there is a piece of kindness, there is a spark of sympathy and compassion, there is an amazing ability to empathize, which leads us to answer the call for help. This ability is great and the most valuable thing in a person. It is impossible to remain indifferent [...]

Haiti: Huge outpouring of solidarity in Luxembourg

Employees donated 50,000 euros to the Red Cross.
February 10th, 2010, BNP Paribas Luxembourg presented a check to the Luxembourg Red Cross. This check was given thanks to a call for donations initiated by the Human Resources department and other personnel representatives. The money will go to help the victims of the severe earthquake that struck [...]

“A smile for Christmas”

BNP Paribas Spain has participated in the “A smile for Christmas” campaign for the past six years. This year, Cardif Spain, a subsidiary of the BNP Paribas Group, also took part in the initiative, which is organised jointly by the NGO International Cooperation and the charitable association Caritas.
As part of this initiative, 150 gift parcels [...]

Typhoon Relief Funds for Philippines

At the end of October 2009, northern Philippines was struck by two Typhoons – Ondoy and Pepeng, which caused severe flooding and left more than 400,000 people homeless. The damage was concentrated in poorer, underdeveloped areas with inadequate drainage systems and affected more than 1 million people’s lives.

BNP Paribas Singapore and the BNP Paribas Manila [...]

Used Books for Charity

In Taiwan, employees of Cardif and BNP Paribas are banding together for the collection of used literature. During the first week of February, collection boxes were set up in office buildings in many branches to collect books for this Charity program. The destination for all the books is the Mollie Used Book House located in [...]