The HiGreen "For Green Truong Sa" Charity Pickleball Tournament attracts the technology community

Thủy Nguyễn | 29/06/2025 17:00

More than 120 athletes who are leaders and technology experts from more than 60 domestic and international corporations and partners will participate in the MBIT HiGreen Pickleball 2025 Tournament at the US stadium. Pickleball (70 An Duong, Hanoi). The event was organized by the Information Technology (MBIT) - Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MB), to raise funds for the HiGreen Truong Sa campaign with the goal of planting 1 million trees to green the Truong Sa archipelago.

This is a continuation of the HiGreen Truong Sa community campaign launched by MB in coordination with the Navy in April 2025. To date, the campaign has recorded nearly 50,000 organizations and individuals participating, through financial contributions or green actions. Through this tournament, MB hopes to raise an additional 20 billion VND, equivalent to 268,000 trees, bringing the total campaign result to about 28% of the target.

Dai dien MB cung cac tap doan, doi tac trong nuoc va quoc te tham gia Giai dau MBIT HiGreen Pickleball 2025. Anh MB — MB representatives, domestic and international corporations and partners will participate in the MBIT HiGreen Pickleball 2025 Tournament. Photo MB

The tournament has the participation of senior representatives from MB such as: Mr. Vu Thanh Trung, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of MB, Head of the Organizing Committee of the HiGreen Truong Sa campaign, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Hoc, Deputy General Director, Director of IT Department of MB Group, and many leaders from member companies in MB Group. On the partner's side, there were representatives from leading technology names such as: Oracle, Temenos, Amigo, IBM, Dell, Palo Alto, Cisco, Netapp, HPE, F5, Redhat, Openway, Hitachi, SVTech, Checkpoint, Viettel, FPT, TechX, FTI, digibank, CMCTS, CTIN... Among them, some delegates participated in Working Group No. 15 to visit Truong Sa and MB at the end of April.

The unique feature of the event is that MB chose Pickleball, a modern sport with a high sense of connection to convey social messages. There are no valuable prizes or gifts in kind, instead, athletes will receive spiritual gifts bearing the Truong Sa mark such as island cottonpops or flags that have flown on the islands.

Sharing at the event, Mr. Vu Thanh Trung, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of MB emphasized: In every major transformation journey, no one can go alone. MB clearly understands that to go far and sustainably, we need trusted companions, that is the technology partner community that has always stood side by side with MB throughout the process of not only becoming a digital enterprise, a leading financial group but also pioneering in the great tasks of the country.

After the tournament, the HiGreen journey will continue with a special event: the " soul of Art" art exhibition exclusively for MB Private customers, expected 5% of the revenue from the works will be contributed by the artist to the campaign.