Staff including the CEO and the senior management team of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) Ltd in Bangladesh helped paint School of Hope, a school set up for the disadvantaged children from the slum areas of Gulshan and Badda.
School of Hope was started by a group of Swedish expatriates and now has over 150 students and 6 permanent teachers. HSBC Bangladesh Chief Executive Officer Steve Banner was amongst the volunteers consisting of senior management and other staff from HSBC who helped in painting the 7-room school building. Mr Chitto Halder, principal of the school expressed his gratitude to HSBC for helping paint the school.
HSBC staff also recently took the children out for an outing at the zoo which the children enjoyed very much.
HSBCs involvement with the School of Hope started in 1997 with the then CEO of Bangladesh Mr David T Humphreys. Since then, the school has received donations from HSBC UK and HSBC Japan and received over 1.9 million BDT from HSBC Bangladesh. HSBC Bangladesh also sponsors their annual sports day, music literacy projects, taken the children out for a trip and has donated used computers from the Bank for the children’s education.
