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Creating Opportunity
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Social Investments
Helping build self-supporting structures: this is at the heart of Deutsche Bank´s social commitment.
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According to the World Bank, around 2.7 billion people survive on less than US$ 2 per day. Insufficient medical care and an inadequate education system further worsen their living conditions. Our activities to combat poverty are focused on supporting sustainable initiatives and projects aimed at helping people help themselves.
We believe every individual, as a member of society, should be aided in achieving his or her true potential and in living a self-sufficient life as quickly as possible. Through our financial know-how, in particular, we are able to build social capital. Microfinance instruments – a core competency of Deutsche Bank – as well as Social Venture Funds have proven highly effective.
In projects where we provide funding, we strive to make use of our expertise in finance and project management wherever possible. Deutsche Bank has been quick to offer aid to people in need after natural disasters, even prior to the tsunami disaster in 2004 or the flooding of the Oder River in 1997.
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In 2008, in cooperation with local and international aid organizations, we provided more than US$ 500,000 in aid to help victims of the snow storms that swept across China and those left homeless by the hurricane in Myanmar. Our focus then, as it remains today, is to provide funding and immediate help to areas devastated by natural catastrophes.
More Information
Looking Back: The 2004 Tsunami
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Key Facts
- In cooperation with numerous microfinance institutions, loans valued at more than US$ 1 billion and distributed to 2.2 million borrowers cumulatively have been possible
- More than 30,000 AIDS orphans in Africa are receiving support from Deutsche Bank in collaboration with various partner organizations
- Deutsche Bank has helped create 2,000 living units for the homeless in New York
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