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June 26, 2008
Poland: Citi Handlowy's Kronenberg Foundation Supports Enchanted Song Festival
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The hosts of this year's Marek Grechuta Enchanted Song Festival were Anna Dymna, Maciej Stuhr and Zbigniew Zamachowski. The festival final featured also performances by Polish singers: Natalia Kukulska, Kasia Cerekwicka, Halinka Mlynkowa, Grzegorz Markowski, Andrzej Sikorowski and Szymon Wydra.
Citi Handlowy volunteer, Edyta Tararuj was invited to the stage to collect the "Personality of the Month" award from Anna Dymna, which is awarded by the Volunteer Center.
The main prizes of the Enchanted Song Festival, funded by the Kronenberg Foundation, were presented by Vice President of the Management Board of the Bank Witold Zielinski who said, "Citi Handlowy is a bank for which all corporate social responsibility initiatives are of great significance. For us it is extremely important to help other people to develop their interest and talents. I'm glad that, thanks to the Kronenberg Foundation operating at Citi Handlowy, we can once again support vocally-gifted young people and help them make their dreams a reality."
Anna Dymna said: "The aim of the Festival is the integration of disabled people into society as well as the promotion of musically talented disabled persons. We want to discover vocally-gifted young people who show that a wheelchair or impaired vision does not prevent them from singing beautifully, emotionally and in tune. Music can break all barriers, and it provides a forum where people can be defined by their talent and eagerness to work and not by their disability.
The 4th Marek Grechuta National Enchanted Song Festival was possible thanks to the cooperation of TVP, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, PFRON and Anna Dymna's "Against the Odds" Foundation. The patrons of the project were President of the Republic of Poland Lech Kaczynski, Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bogdan Zdrojewski and Government's Plenipotentiary for Disabled People Jaroslaw Duda. The Festival was organized under the artistic patronage of Irena Santor. The media patrons were: TVP 2, RMF FM, Gazeta Krakowska, Rzeczpospolita, Wirtualna Polska.
The project is addressed to vocally-gifted disabled persons whose social situation does not allow them to develop their talents and skills.
More information about the Festival can be found at www.zaczarowana.pl.
More information on the Kronenberg Foundation is available at www.kronenberg.org.pl.
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Bank Handlowy w Warszawie
Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A. is one of the major financial institutions in Poland and offers under the Citi Handlowy brand a broad range of state-of-the-art products in corporate, investment and consumer banking. Through its modern distribution channels and a network of over 200 branches, Bank Handlowy services 20,000 corporate customers and 800,000 individual ones. The Bank's group includes Dom Maklerski Banku Handlowego (brokerage house) and Handlowy Leasing. Being a member of Citi enables the customers of Bank Handlowy access to financial services provided in over 100 countries.
Kronenberg Foundation
The Kronenberg Foundation was established in 1996. On behalf of Citi Handlowy, it provides assistance for programs promoting the public good in the following areas: education, local development and preservation of the national heritage. Its activities include, among others, a financial education program for secondary school students called "My Finances", organized in cooperation with the National Bank of Poland and the Junior Achievement Foundation; the Employee Volunteer Program (involvement of Citi Handlowy employees in selected community and social initiatives); competitions: Microentrepreneur of the Year and the Competition for the Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A. Award in the Theory of Economics, which is made for outstanding achievements in the area of economics and finance, as well as the Prof. Aleksander Gieysztor Award, made for a substantial contribution to the preservation of the Polish cultural heritage.