Blog BNP Paribas | The bank for a changing world

August 9th, 2010

BlogTV: Camping “Green” with GoodPlanet Junior

An essential part of sustainable development is raising awareness among, and teaching good habits to, future generations. With this in mind, GoodPlanet Junior, a GoodPlanet program, has organised a green-friendly summer camp for kids.
What kinds of activities are organised to help pass on environmentally-friendly messages? What ideas are addressed? And most importantly: what do the [...]

Read more: BlogTV: Camping “Green” with GoodPlanet Junior
  • 0
  • 0

Actions: Education, Environment

Isabelle Palsky

Isabelle Palsky

Articles from this author

July 21st, 2010

A Day of Tennis and Sightseeing in Mezdra

On July 16th, BNP Paribas Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Tennis Federation (BTF) organized a tennis camp for children from the Home for the Disabled in Mezdra, Bulgaria. Ilija Atanassov, the Director of Tennis Development at the BTF, gave a tennis lesson on central court to an eager audience. For the young boys and girls who took part, it [...]

Read more: A Day of Tennis and Sightseeing in Mezdra
  • 0
  • 0

Actions: Goodwill tennis

Krasimira Antimova

Krasimira Antimova

Articles from this author

July 9th, 2010

11th Casablanca Young Readers Award

The main objectives of this event were to encourage students to read, to share the joy of reading by encouraging them to express themselves and write clearly about their personal reactions to books, and to promote the distribution of quality literature for young people in Morocco. [...]

Read more: 11th Casablanca Young Readers Award
  • 0
  • 0

Actions: Culture

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 [...]

Read more: Fun with Sustainable Development
  • 0
  • 0

Actions: Environment

Christine De Michieli

Christine De Michieli

Articles from this author

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 [...]

Read more: Education and Health for Children in Vietnam
Marie-Caroline Mathieu

Marie-Caroline Mathieu

Articles from this author

June 22nd, 2010

Learning the tools of the trade

For the last three years BNP Paribas Securities Services has sponsored the Stock Market Challenge events in both Dundee and Glasgow. These events see S3 pupils (aged 13-15) spend the day working in teams of five to trade in shares and foreign currency by analysing information from the stock market. The project not only teaches [...]

Read more: Learning the tools of the trade
  • 0
  • 3

Actions: Education

Lindsay Bennett

Lindsay Bennett

Articles from this author

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 [...]

Read more: Refresh Project: revitalising a local UK charity
  • 0
  • 2

Actions: Solidarity

June 10th, 2010

Funds to Fight Famine

For the 5th year in a row, BNP Paribas employees ran the Luxembourg Marathon to raise money for the non-governmental organization SOS Village d’Enfants. The bank pledged a certain donation per employee to cross the finish line, motivating some 200 staff members to get into shape to run the 42-km race.
SOS Village d’Enfants, a Luxembourg [...]

Read more: Funds to Fight Famine
  • 0
  • 1

Actions: Solidarity

June 7th, 2010

A “Child’s Dream” comes true

On the occasion of the charity event held before the start of Roland Garros, BNP Paribas invited, for the 4th year in a row, around 20 children in the “Rêve d’enfance” (Childhood Dream) charity programme to attend Roland Garros on 22 May.
Founded in 2001 by students of HEC, one of France’s leading business schools, this [...]

Read more: A “Child’s Dream” comes true
  • 0
  • 2

Actions: Goodwill tennis

Domitille de Chargères

Domitille de Chargères

Articles from this author