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August 8th, 2011

Second Japan staff volunteer trip to the Tohoku region

28 BNP Paribas staff from Japan took part in the second Tohoku volunteer trip to help in the recovery effort. The group took the last train to Tohoku on July 27 and spent two days in Rikuzentakata city and Oshima island in Kesennuma, some of the cities most affected by the tsunami disaster last March. [...]

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Daniel Boyd

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August 1st, 2011

BlogTV: Volunteers without borders

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Microfinance Sans Frontières is a project that matches eager volunteers, both working and retired, with microfinance institutions, or MFIs, around the world. The match is made on the basis of the needs to of the MFIs and the particular skills and schedules of the individuals involved.
How are these volunteers recruited? And how exactly does the [...]

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Isabelle Palsky

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July 7th, 2011

Japan staff volunteer in the Tohoku region

26 members of staff joined the first BNP Paribas Tohoku volunteer activity from June 22 until June 25. After an overnight bus ride the group arrived in one of Japan’s most affected areas, Minamisanriku. The tsunami came inland as far as 4 kilometres, leaving devastation on a shocking scale. [...]

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Daniel Boyd

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July 6th, 2011

Project Bench Restoration in Regent’s Park

On 8 June, a team of seven members of our UK staff set off in the direction of Regent’s Park in London to take on Project Bench Restoration: part I of our summer park projects. [...]

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Monique Kleingunther

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July 4th, 2011

BlogTV: Solidarity and disease prevention with Pesinet

Setting up a system of prevention and early detection of childhood diseases in countries lacking proper medical resources: this is the vision of Pesinet.
Since its creation in 2007, this organization has built a team of 7 employees who are in the field, committed to implementing a procedure that helps quickly identify benign diseases in [...]

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Lily Dionne

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June 21st, 2011

The “I Volunteer” programme marks another milestone in Bahrain

The members of the “I Volunteer” team in Bahrain marked another milestone by leading a fun “EduArt” activity on June 2. The event was held at the Bahrain Rehabilitation Centre in Isa Town, which houses BNP Paribas’ Equal Possibilities Centre (BEPC), a facility dedicated to teaching office administration skills to individuals with disabilities that will [...]

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Tracy Elwick

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June 10th, 2011

Profile of an organization: “92 FoFo Niger”

92 FoFo Niger is an organization that assists the disadvantaged population of Niamey, the capital of Niger. It has 5 active and deeply committed core members, supported by about thirty additional members. The “Coup de pouce” (Helping Hand) programme is supporting a project to create a hospital wing for malnourished children at C.R.E.N.I. (the Intensive [...]

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Sophie Bonnaud-Le Roux

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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 [...]

Rain or Shine: Trees Spring Up in the Bronx and Staten Island

While storm clouds provided the backdrop to this year’s Arbor Day, nothing could stop the BNP Paribas volunteers from coming out and getting their hands dirty in support of MillionTreesNYC. [...]

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Scott Gerace

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