In commemoration of its annual social responsibility week, AXA Week for Good, hundreds of employees of AXA Mansard recently took the campaign against domestic and sexual violence to some schools in Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt.
More than 900 members of staff of the leading insurance company in Nigeria partook in the awareness, which was designed to combat the scourge of domestic and sexual violence against children across the country.
AXA Week for Good is the flagship volunteering programme of AXA Hearts In Action (AHIA), a programme through which AXA encourages its employees to contribute to positive societal and environmental impacts through volunteering, expertise, related financial support, and in-kind donations.
At this year’s programme, held under the theme, Being a Girl Shouldn’t Be A Risk, teachers and students were educated on the identification, prevention, and reporting of sexual and domestic violence.
AXA Mansard employees participated in awareness walks to sensitize the public about the danger of domestic and sexual violence on children and the nation’s future.
In 2024, over 50 per cent of AXA Mansard workforce, through various volunteering activities under the AHIA, clocked over 23,000 volunteering hours. Their dedication underscores the company’s deep-rooted belief that real impact begins with people.
By empowering its employees to take meaningful action, the company continues to demonstrate that corporate responsibility goes beyond business it is about building a safer, more inclusive future for all.
“Through the AHIA, our employees do not just give time to great causes; we work together for a better future. We share our knowledge and expertise as a people with a shared purpose of acting for human progress by protecting what matters by helping vulnerable communities and people around us,” the Chief Client Officer of AXA Mansard, Ms Rashidat Adebisi, said.
She disclosed that this year’s theme presents the organization with an opportunity to demonstrate the social, economic, and ethical benefits of protecting the girl child.
According to her, Nigeria’s 105 million children and adolescents aged 0–17 years represent about half of the country’s population.
“For a country betting its economic growth on the strength and human capital of its young population, the alarming rate and spate of Violence Against Children (VAC) threatens the future not just of our country, but of the African continent,” she stated.
Ms Adebisi noted that the staggering reality that 60 per cent of Nigerian children experience one or more forms of violence before age 18 is a call to action for everyone, and “our employees are responding to this clarion call so that the thousand of Nigerian girls who go through physical, emotional, sexual and psychological violence can find safe places to get help; but most important, we can rid our society of perpetrators.”