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December 23rd, 2009

Nadezhda: revitalizing an orphanage

For last 3 years, BNP Paribas CIB Russia has provided financial support for “Nadezhda” orphanage, a boarding school, 100 km outside of Moscow, with 130 children from 6 to 16 years old from disadvantaged families. This intiative was started in 2006 by BNP Paribas CIB Russia employees to help nurture abandoned children, and since then, [...]

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Julia Panevina

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December 22nd, 2009

Odyssée Jeunes: Knowledge and adventure

On December 14th, the General Council of Seine-Saint-Denis and BNP Paribas launched the program “Odyssée Jeunes” (Youth Odyssey). This project will accommodate approximately 12,000 middle school students of Seine-Saint-Denis (Department outside of Paris) on 300 school trips in France and other foreign countries over the next two years.
To participate in the Odyssée Jeunes teachers [...]

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Stephen Rempala

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October 7th, 2009

Back to school in Germany

Friday, September 25th about 80 colleagues of the BNP Paribas Group in Germany exchanged their PC with hand tools and their suit with old clothes to go back to school and participate in the Malteser Social Day.
The Social Day is a humanitarian action organized by the Order of Malta Volunteers. The action has taken place [...]

Providing an education for all children of Vietnam

When BNP Paribas Assurance launched its activities in Vietnam with the establishment of the VCLI joint venture, the company also decided to contribute to national development by providing support for children’s education.
The company is therefore increasing its partnership with Aide & Action (four projects in West Africa are already receiving funding) through the “Early [...]

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Quê Lan Tran

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January 22nd, 2009

Net4Kids

BNP Paribas The Netherlands aids underprivileged children in India and Gambia through Net4kids.
India: sustainable help to street children in Tirupur
A sustainable ecological park has been selected as a tool to rehabilitate street children. The park will provide food, shelter, education, training and recreation. It will cultivate the habit of an ecologically sustainable living style. The [...]

Mobilising against low educational achievement

For the last 10 years, the BNP Paribas Foundation has been supporting AFEV (Student Foundation Association for the City, or “Association de la Fondation Etudiante pour la Ville”).
On 24 September, the Association launched the first “Mobilising against under achievement in schools” Day. During the event, several debates were held and several films shown as part [...]

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June 12th, 2008

Bankers in shorts

Ukrisibbank, a subsidiary of BNP Paribas in the Ukraine, has initiated a programme entitled the “Young Bankers’ Academy”, to familiarise children between the ages of 6 and 8 with the world of banking.
In two-hour sessions, children from primary schools in Kiev attended an amusing presentation on the history of money, from barter to the modern [...]

Sciences Po in favour of more diversity among its students

The Institute of Political Studies in Paris (L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris or IEP Paris – more commonly known as “Sciences Po”) and BNP Paribas share the same objective – to provide young people from marginalised neighbourhoods with access to university education and employment.
In 2001, Sciences Po, with the support of BNP Paribas, launched the [...]

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