OREANDA-NEWS. December 26, 2011. New habitats for cute flying squirrels, a special playground for mentally disabled children in Helen School, two cosily furnished rooms in the Haraka kodu care home and treatment for stray animals in Viljandi and Parnu – this is the joint contribution of Sampo Pank and its clients to charity.

Sampo Pank’s Director of Personal and Retail Banking Tonu Vanajuur said last year, the bank’s clients had the choice of using the plus points collected with the ISEKAS loyalty programme for a raffled monetary prize or donating them to one of five projects.

Clients could make a donation in support of the shelters for stray animals in Parnu and Viljandi to the Estonian Fund for Nature, which uses the money to protect flying squirrels, to Helen School, which educates children with mental disabilities and to the Haraka kodu care home.

“I am pleased to see that people in Estonia have changed their behaviour in recent years,” said Vanajuur. “Clients are saving more money so they can take better care of their finances, which has increased their security and allows them to donate more to those in need.”

Sampo Pank clients donated 6,440 euros, and the bank added the same amount of money, so the total funds raised for charity amounted to 12,880 euros.