News labeled children and youth:

SEB together with customers, partners and the Latvian public raised almost 4,300 Latvian lats for SOS Children’s Villages through a range of activities – including online games and sharing on social networks – from 17 November to 6 January.

SEB’s Estonian charity fund – Heategevusfond – this year facilitated distribution of Christmas gifts to 1,000 children living in shelters. The gifts were made possible by donations from over 1,500 people.

SEB and its customers in Latvia have contributed over 14,000 euro to the rehabilitation center at the Children’s Hospital i Riga. The bank helped raise the money through a campaign launched earlier this year.

On 12 January, 2010, a devastating earthquake hit Haiti. Contributions from SEB and other companies have made a difference. Watch the film where Gary Shaye, on-site manager for Save the Children in Haiti, talks about the organisation's  work to help the children of Haiti.

SEB will donate one lat (1.42 euro) for each new customer that signs up for the bank’s second pillar pension scheme to upgrade equipment at the rehabilitation centre of the children’s clinical university hospital in Riga.

For 20 days, the ship Briggen Tre Kronor of Stockholm will sail around the Baltic sea stopping in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. On board are mentors and students from SEB's mentoring program. The initiative aims to draw attention to SEB's work on sustainability issues, especially its dedication to a cleaner Baltic sea and support of future generations.

SEB in Lithuania recently arranged a week-long summer camp for children in cooperation with the local branch of Mentor, aiming to encourage young people to choose a healthy lifestyle and foster creativity, self development and teamwork skills.

SEB and Norges Tennisforbund (Norwegian tennis association) have entered into a sponsoring agreement that takes SEB's Next Generation concept to Norway. The agreement runs through 2013 and is the largest youth effort in Norwegian tennis to date.

Continuing an initiative started two years ago, SEB has decided to provide all first-graders in Latvia with free accident insurance for a year in the amount of 1,000 lats. SEB estimates that about 20,000 children will attend school for the first time and thus be covered by insurance. Previously, this initiative was carried out in cooperation with municipalities in Latvia, but this year marks the first time SEB presents the policies alone.

Do you have problems remembering the lyrics of lullabies? Or do you feel that you don’t have the best singing voice? In a web based marketing campaign SEB in Lithuania has recorded about 30 lullabies, and offers parents to download those for free.

Right now the enrollment to the new generation of SEB's mentoring program is ongoing. One of this year's participants, is Ingrid Engström, head of HR & Organizational Development. "It feels exciting and a bit daunting. I look forward to meet the person I'm going to mentor," she says.