On Tuesday (October 9th) the “Standard Bank Economic Journalism Prize” was launched. It seeks to promote and encourage a better journalistic quality in processing news of economic nature.
Standard Bank signed on Monday (October 8th 2012) a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Housing Development Fund in order to facilitate financing for the purchase of houses, as part of the project to build 5.000 houses in Intaka neighbourhood, in Matola municipality.
As part of the “Batuque” or Drum Festival of the Maputo Municipal Council,which aims to exalt culture as a differentiating factor of people, Standard Bank – patron of the celebrations of the 125th anniversary of the Mozambican capital city – promoted, from the 23rd to the 25th August, the citizenship campaign in the Guachene neighbourhood in the municipal district of KaTembe.
The third edition of the Standard Bank Tournament, a sports event held as part of the celebrations for the 118 years of the establishment of Standard Bank in Mozambique, ended on Saturday, August 25th.
Teve lugar, sábado último, na cidade de Maputo, a abertura da terceira edição do torneio Standard Bank, um evento desportivo que acontece em simultâneo nas cidades de Quelimane, Beira, Chimoio, Tete e Nampula.
The training of athletes and delegation members of the Para-Olympic Committee that will represent Mozambique at the Paralympics in London scheduled for 29 August, started in Maputo on July 24.
The first teachers training course in chess took place between July 3th and 5th, as part of the project that aims to massify the practice of this sport in the country, having trained 150 primary school teachers from different schools within the city and province of Maputo.
Standard Bank has joined, on Friday last week, June 15th, the system of electronic tax collection, the Single Electronic Window (SEW).
Standard Bank offered on Monday (June 11) equipment to the Matola Chess Academy, in order to support a project that aims the mass practice of chess in primary schools in Maputo. The equipment consists of chess tables and pieces, books as well as T-shirts. The amount also includes the payment of expenses related to the project.
As part of its corporate social responsibility, Standard Bank has provided support valued at 240.000 meticais, to encourage and make the national women’s beach volleyball team more competitive in their fight for a place during the 2012 London Olympic Games.