Help to vulnerable groups
NLB Group supports vulnerable groups, helps children, and donates funds to hospitals. For 12 consecutive years, it has supported the NLB Wheel wheelchair basketball tournament, and in 2019 it also started supporting the handball team of the Paraplegics’ Association of Slovenia.
Interpreter project
In 2019, NLB Group decided to support the project, intended for equal inclusion of the deaf into everyday life, Theatre Interpreter, which will enable the deaf to access theatre art. In 2019, 12 Slovenian theatres signed the commitment to include at least one performance with a Slovenian sign language interpreter into their next year’s programme.
Strengthening co-operation of employees in NLB Group with the vulnerable group of deaf and hard of hearing brings new experience and findings about the meaning of communication.
Implementation of the project was enabled with financial support of NLB Group. Furthermore, since August 2019, it made it possible for the deaf and hard of hearing to perform basic banking services via video call from the NLB Contact Centre, and with the help of a bank consultant and interpreter, get answers to their questions from the area of banking issues.
In the sense of charity and openness to various groups, the NLB Contact Centre celebrated its 25th anniversary in December 2019. In the scope of their work, employees in NLB Group often come across clients who do not hear. In order to make communication easier as much as possible the anniversary event was enriched by the presence of two interpreters of sign language used by the deaf. With their help, participants learned basic gestures of sign language, which will be of help in many situations.
Slojenčki project
At the end of 2019, instead for business gifts, NLB Group assigned financial assets rather for donation to the Slojenčki project.
The mission of the Slojenčki society is to enable as much as possible safe arrival to this world for all Slovenian babies. Maternity hospitals in Slovenia have teams of professional and devoted employees each day striving to provide the best care of newborns. However, in some places the conditions for this are poor. The equipment is worn out and outdated. Due to a lack of finance, the purchase of modern medical technological equipment is often delayed. With collected funds, NLB Group will enable safer and nicer arrival of babies to this world and help Slovenian maternity hospitals on their way to become/remain modern healthcare institutions with equipment, care, and services in the area of medicine, which are at the level of maternity hospitals in the developed world.
In the framework of “Home is Where People Who Matter the Most Are” campaign in 2019, NLB Group started collecting donation contributions by means of donation boxes at branch offices for the Slojenčki society, which will receive this money together with donations from NLB after the completion of the campaign in 2020.
NLB Group collects charity funds, which will be delivered together with its donation to the Slojenčki society.
URI Soča
By handing over the donations to URI Soča, NLB Group pointed out the consequences of careless use of pyrotechnics. Playing with firecrackers can be dangerous, which is learnt through personal experience by too many children and teenagers. The Bank also believes that pyrotechnics are not necessary for a good party – namely, they can have severe consequences for both people and animals, which is why we have been supporting the “Firecrackers? No, thank you!” campaign for years. The symbolic handover of funds was also intended to warn against dangers that can arise from shooting with mortars and carbide, which is especially popular in the time of Easter and the 1st of May holidays. Their use can cause heavy injuries and consequences which can mark them and their families for their entire life.
By handing donations over to URI Soča NLB Group warns about consequences of careless use of pyrotechnics.
Dr. Helena Burger, MD,
Medical Director of URI Soča and head of the rehabilitation after amputation department
With the donation to the department for rehabilitation after amputation in URI Soča in 2019, NLB Group wanted to upgrade the message and help those who speak of the dangers of pyrotechnics from own experience. The University Rehabilitation Institute Soča used funds collected in NLB Group branch offices to purchase new equipment for physical and occupational therapy.
Blaž Brodnjak,
President of the Management Board of NLB d.d.
Co-operation by receiving calls upon charity campaign of Red Cross
The NLB Contact Centre with its widespread activity of operations through numerous channels and accessibility 365 days a year is involved in many environments, families, and clients. Due to its role and mission, in 2019 it participated in various events with a charity note, expanding knowledge and benefits for the environment and within the Bank for employees of the NLB.
In the Slovenian Red Cross week, the NLB Contact Centre participated again in charity campaign and received calls from donors who donated funds for charity purposes.
The NLB Contact Centre participated in various events taking place at the NLB Innovative Entrepreneurship Centre through video call and in this way expanded knowledge and possibilities of co-operation with the Bank even without a visit to the bank branch office.
The NLB Contact Centre, with its accessibility 365 days a year, is involved in many environments, families, and clients.