HSBC Bank is the largest international bank in the Middle East with 45 branches in the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan and the Palestinian Autonomous Area. HSBC Bank also has representative offices in Tehran, Iran and Tripoli, Libya.
One of the latest endeavors of HSBC Bank is launching an international summer school in collaboration with Mosaic. Mosaic is an integrated and thriving society for supporting individuals in realizing their potential irrespective of their background. Mosaic is charitable organization which was founded by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales within his charity Business in the Community for addressing the interests and issues of Muslim community. HSBC Bank Middle East Limited has partnered this Summer School for aiming to increase understanding of global social and environmental issues and for creating positive relations between individuals from both the Muslim and non Muslim world. The International Summer School has been founded in association with the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
The summer school is a two week program which will include debate and discussion around key issues that are faced by the communities worldwide. These debates and discussion will be carried out by the visiting projects across the UK to bring the discussions to life.
There would be delegates from different regions consisting of wide range of individuals from very diverse professional and educational backgrounds such as teachers, HR professionals, students, engineers and business leaders, from an age group between 20-40 years. These individuals would be coming from countries like Bahrain, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan.
The Regional Head of Corporate Sustainability, HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, Kaltham Al Koheji says about the International Summer School that
This program presents a unique opportunity for HSBC Bank to nurture and support the young people of our region. We hope it will go some way in making an impact on the education of our talented participants. If today's students are taught the importance of good leadership qualities, we believe they will go on to be better leaders as they move ahead with their careers. The core of HSBC Bank’s community investment is to encourage education as well as promote diversity and this program delivers on these objectives.'
The first week of the program would be spent Cambridge and would be consisting of seminars and discussion groups that would contribute to the theme of inspiring leadership in the 21st century.
During the second week of the program, the delegation will be divided into groups who will be visiting projects around the United Kingdom. After the visit they would come back to London and share their learning as a group.
These delegates would become the alumni of this international summer school. This would show their commitment to harbor positive relations and collaborative action between the Muslim and non Muslim world. When they would return home, they would use their learning to help bring a change in their local communities. They would help change and develop positively various parts of the community such as education and business.
Such programs should be organized often. In the times when there anti Muslim sentiments are increasing ay by day and the Muslims and non Muslims are moving far apart, such platforms are badly needed. As for the nature of the program, it is a great opportunity for all the participants to share there experiences. Everything is practices in a different manner in different countries and cultures, be it business, education etc. It is good to the practices from each other so the best ones can be adopted by the most.
