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March 21st, 2011

BlogTV: Learning the art of storytelling with Piccolo Opera

How many kids do you know that love opera by age 6? In Geneva, the young students of the Piccolo Opera are already familiar with this elite art form, so often reserved for adults.
With the guidance of a passionate team of artists and teachers, these kids engage in improvisational exercises, explore new characters, help design [...]

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Isabelle Palsky

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March 17th, 2011

Reporters for a Day with “Pour un Sourire d’Enfant”

The organization known as Pour un Sourire d’Enfant—“to see a child smile”—was created in 1995 with one goal in mind: to improve the lives of young people across Cambodia. Their mission is broad, but feasible, one initiative at a time…
Today, PSE provides access to education to 4,000 children, as well as professional training to 1,500 [...]

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Isabelle Palsky

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March 8th, 2011

BlogTV: Defining life goals for the youth of Madagascar

Welcome to the streets of Antananarivo, Madagascar, where the children live day-to-day in extreme poverty. In such conditions, education takes backseat to simply surviving, taking care of the family, finding food…
But the Graine de Bitume organization, with its team of 24 volunteers, opened its doors in 2000 to help give a helping hand to these [...]

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Lily Dionne

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January 14th, 2011

“Insight Day” in the UK

Since 2001, the bank’s Community and Charity programme in the UK has helped support local schools via a mentoring initiative. At the end of last year, we undertook a pilot initiative to extend it to include young people aged 14 to 19.
Last November, 28 young people came to our offices to take part in [...]

Vital Regeneration: Enriching London’s Neighborhoods

Vital Regeneration is a charity working to transform London’s most disadvantaged neighbourhoods. It helps develop social, environmental and economic programmes so that people and communities fulfil their potential through learning, employment and enterprise. [...]

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Emma Oliver

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July 5th, 2010

Fun with Sustainable Development

Wanting to foster partnerships with the various city governments in the region in order to increase sustainable development awareness for young people, we recently created card game called “I Love My Planet”. Seven different fictional families each illustrate environmentally-friendly activities, green methods of transportation, wind power, endangered species, organic nutrition, the preservation and protection of [...]

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Christine De Michieli

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June 30th, 2010

Education and Health for Children in Vietnam

In September 1995, after 8 years of marriage and having received all the treatments that modern medicine could provide, my husband and I finally resolved to take a different path from the one we’d imagined and made the big decision to adopt a child. Today, we are the parents of two young boys, both from [...]

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Marie-Caroline Mathieu

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June 15th, 2010

Refresh Project: revitalising a local UK charity

BNP Paribas Securities Services UK have been working with local charity, Hackney Quest, over the last year on a number of different activities. Recently, ten volunteers from the London office helped out with their ‘refresh project’ to brighten and repaint their local centre during the Easter Holidays.
This gave BNP Paribas employees the opportunity to work [...]

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Katie Rundle

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May 21st, 2010

Calcutta, from the street to the school

They wander the streets of Calcutta in their millions, in search of a livelihood; millions of children who live in squats, in shacks, on sidewalks … the majority are immigrants, clearly extremely poor, and are either orphans or have only one parent to support them.
Under these circumstances, where drug trafficking and sexual abuse are [...]

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