Mol Romania, in partnership with the Community Foundation, announces the start of the talent promoting programme ‘Pot ajuta?’ [May I help?], an initiative which is at the fourth consecutive edition. The programme is national and it is open to young people aged between 8-18 who have special performances in sports and arts. These people may apply for the programme in the period lasting between May 4 and June 12. This year, MOL Romania will offer 40,000 EUR to the young sportsmen and 20,000 EUR to the young artists.
In order to obtain a sponsorship in the MOL programme ‘Pot ajuta?’ the young people may apply individually and with the team they belong to. The details of the programme can be found on www.molromania.ro and www.pentrucomunitate.ro, starting with May 4.
“We have decided to continue the programme ‘Pot ajuta?’ even in these economic conditions because the programmes of social responsibility, and especially the support of talents constitutes an important part of our strategy, which follows the principles of lasting development. We strongly believe the fact that the young people represent the future and the investments in the future will have results. As we see things in perspective in our business strategies, we believe that the same principle has to be applied concerning the talented young people, who have to be supported in the building of their own future”, declares Zsolt Szalay, Country Chairman MOL Romania.
As part of the first three editions, 217individual sportsmen / women, teams, young artists and artistic bands were supported from the whole country, the value of the sponsorship granted until now being 140,000 EUR.
“The Community Foundation was established exactly with the aim of supporting the talented young people, to offer help in the succeeding of cultural programmes and the
co-operation with Mol Romania in this programme helps us fulfil these objectives. We hope that with this co-operation we would have the possibility to give a helping hand to some exceptional young people in sports as well as in arts”, declares Arpad Gazda, president of the Community Foundation.
This year, the applications will be selected by two expert juries - for sports and for arts. The president of the sports jury is Violeta Beclea-Szekely, ex-champion in athletics, PhD in sports and the president of the arts jury is the organist Erich Turk, PhD in music.
The programme ‘Pot ajuta?’ is applied on a regional level, being successfully implemented by the MOL Group in Hungary since 2005 and in Slovakia since 2007. On a Group level, there were sponsored more than 2,100 people in the three countries where the programme is carried on and the amount allocated by the MOL Group exceeded 800,000 EUR.
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Mol Romania is a retail oil company, a part of the MOL Group, the biggest integrated oil and gas company from central and eastern Europe. Employing 15,000 people, the company carries on its activity in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the CSI countries. MOL owns three oil distilleries in Hungary, Slovakia and Italy.