HSBC Vietnam presented VND500 million to Tuoi Tre newspaper’s Study Promotion Society to provide scholarships to100 poor first-graders in Hanoi as part of the bank’s “1,000 wishes for Hanoi” campaign.
During September, the campaign called for Vietnamese people around the country to share their future wishes for the capital to mark the 1000-year anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi Capital.
At the ceremony on Wednesday the bank announced the 1000 winners of the campaign and granted the 10 best entries with a Sony DSC HX1 Cyber-shot digital camera each, valued at VND10 million, together with a specially commissioned Thang Long cup.
To be eligible the wishes meet three criteria: they had to be meaningful, feasible and reveal a way to unlock Hanoi’s potential. Over four weeks, thousands of wishes were sent in from everywhere in Vietnam, expressing the desires and dreams of Vietnamese people for a rich, prosperous and developed capital that continued to build on the country’s existing strengths and history. The top 1,000 wishes have been posted on www.ngandieuuoc.com.
Each wish of the thousand selected, represented a HSBC donation of VND500,000 to help poor kids start their education.
