(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) AXA Insurance Oman – one of the largest and the leading nonlife international insurers in the region – and AXA Cooperative in Saudi Arabia held the fourth edition of the ‘Corporate Responsibility Week' at the end of June.
Part of its worldwide celebrations, the ‘Corporate Responsibility Week' is the opportunity for AXA's entities and their employees to express their commitment towards corporate responsibility. Over 850 employees in the Gulf region, and 56,000 employees worldwide joined hands to celebrate the event in 2014.
AXA Oman and Saudi employees spent more than 1,000 hours on different activities focused on supporting risk education and prevention. During the week, AXA Oman employees learned about AXA's CR initiatives regionally, and were also invited to participate personally, by volunteering in different activities related to employees' education, volunteering actions and sport activities.
Every hour spent volunteering for protection and prevention activities were converted into euros and donated to risk education projects supported by AXA Hearts in Action. ''Our business is to protect people over the long-term. In this business, trust and solid relationships are paramount. Corporate Responsibility Week is part of AXA's core business: Protection.
''Protecting people is what we do every day and what makes us proud of our business. During CR Week, AXA Oman was engaged to be more responsible in the way they do business. This means designing reliable solutions to meet the needs of our customers, managing risks in a professional way, treating our partners fairly, and developing a work environment built on strong values and trust,'' said Jerome Droesch, CEO of AXA Gulf.
Some of the activities held during the year included:
Distributing food for poor families.
Blood donation drive.
Recycle-bin installation in all AXA Gulf and Oman offices.
Medical check-ups for all AXA staff to ensure a healthy life.
Different sports activities all over Gulf countries.
First-aid seminar to raise awareness of basic first-aid techniques.
''Knowing that more than 75 per cent of our business comes from the health and motor line, we have a crucial role to drive awareness on risk prevention related to health disease and safe driving as part of our strategy to protect the public and our customers,'' said Alexis de Beauregard, chief officer - marketing and corporate respon
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