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Reporters for a day with “Afrique Lémou”

Take a trip to Kersigniané, Mali, with 6 members of the Afrique Lémou association. They were there on a mission last July: to work with the villagers to install solar panels on the roof of the elementary school.
Follow Koudieji and her team throughout the building process, and meet some of the villagers along the way!

Afrique [...]

MFSF: A week on assignment in Burkina Faso

I first heard about MicroFinance Sans Frontières, a BNP Paribas Group initiative, in June of 2008. I had already been interested in microfinance for about 6 years, and in 2002. I wanted to give my career a more international scope. I contacted a number of NGOs and had several interviews, but was unsuccessful due to [...]

Summer of Volunteering in Regent's Park

Employees at BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking in the United Kingdom participated in five environmental projects taking place in Regent’s Park over the summer. The projects were all designed to support the Park in their conservation work.
The tree management project kick started the 2009 Regent’s Park summer team challenge programme. Under the guidance of [...]