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December 13th, 2011

A New Playground for a School in Bulgaria

This school is called, “Charles Perrault”, the first international school in Varna which just celebrated a fully renovated building that will accommodate 83 young pupils [...]

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Krasimira Antimova

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August 2nd, 2011

Libraries for Moroccan schools

Building on its success at the Abderrahmane Addakhil school, the BMCI Foundation has committed to support 3 new schools in 2011. This time, it will adopt a new form of sponsorship: establishing class libraries… [...]

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Aida Kadiri

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June 3rd, 2011

Jersey Cares Day 2011

Jersey Cares Day, which took place on May 7, 2011, is organized in the spirit of partnership and community-building across the state of New Jersey.
Volunteers got involved in several creative projects at the Martin Luther King, Jr. School, the most diverse community school in Jersey City with over 800 students–most of whose first language is [...]

BlogTV: A weekend study session with Proxité

On this week’s BlogTV, head out for a study-intensive weekend with the Proxité association!
Once a year, this organisation, which aims to close the gap between young people from working class neighbourhoods and the professional world, organises a weekend of review in the Yvelines region, not far from Paris.
Young people get involved with Proxité when they [...]

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Isabelle Palsky

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January 7th, 2011

Artists-in-Residence Project continued

How did the Artists-in-Residence Project auditions go in Hong Kong? Here’s the latest: after the Introductory Talk and Audition, 38 students from three secondary schools in the New Territories were selected to join the Project.
They took nine master classes with local artists and members of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. A 40-minute long piece was presented [...]

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Joyce Leung

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August 19th, 2010

AMI Maroc: the building of an integrated school

The aim of AMI, the Moroccan Association for Cerebral Palsy (CP), is to establish care centres for children, adolescents and adults affected by CP in Morocco. As part of the expansion of its activities, the Association has set up the first Centre for Integrated Psychomotor Education within the El Idrissi School in Casablanca. The centre will [...]

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Loubna Kanouni

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August 11th, 2010

School for Everyone

The École pour Tous (School for Everyone) Association was set up in 2002 with the aim of achieving literacy for all in Burkina Faso. It is, therefore, just like the Ouaga Association, supported by BNP Paribas employee Alain Agostini, which received a “Helping Hand” from the BNP Paribas Foundation.
The two associations work together to enable [...]

OLPC: Not a computer, but an educational project

L’Atelier devoted the whole of Wednesday 4 February to an association whose objective is to ensure access to education for all children from 6 to 12 years old in emerging countries: One Laptop per Child (OLPC) [...]

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Jessica Coper

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January 26th, 2010

Trading Bells ring for school pupils in Scotland

Pupils from schools across North East Scotland where given a chance to experience the excitement and the adrenalin rush of dealing on a live stock market trading floor in a competition with other regional schools. This was the seventh annual Stock Market Challenge, sponsored by BNP Paribas Securities Services.
25 teams traded in company [...]

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