“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
- Winston Churchill
Corporate Social Responsibility is largely defined as a commitment to behave ethically
and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of our
workforce and their families as well as the local community at large.
Max New York Life Insurance believes that as a corporate it has a responsibility
to engage with the society it operates in. This engagement should go beyond providing
right products for their needs and being ethical and honest in our business practices.
Max New York Life Insurance believes in caring for the society and has decided to
focus on providing a safe and secure future to the children in the age group 0-12
years. The company works closely with Max India Foundation, an independent social
service organization of Max India Group. The company has taken up immunization as
its societal agenda to ensure protection against major ailments for the next generation
of the country. The company’s immunization program has provides immunization
shots to children through immunization camps across the country. The Immunization
Program covers vaccines like BCG, Hepatitis B vaccine, Polio drops, DPT, D Tap,
Measles vaccine, MMR, Typhoid, dT and TT. Since July 2008, when the immunization
program was initiated, Max New York Life Insurance has provided vaccines to over
10,000 children in around 60 locations. In 2009, the first full year of immunization
program, Max New York Life provided 13,486 immunization shots to 5,155 children
through 109 camps.
Max New York Life Insurance and Max India Foundation along with Manav Sewa Sanidhi
also organizes artificial limbs and polio caliper camps. Through each camp beneficiaries
are provided artificial limbs or polio calipers. Volunteers from Max New York Life
help in creating awareness, manage registration and provide help during the week
long camp where the patients stay till the time they could independently move. In
each such camp more than 350 beneficiaries are provided artificial limbs.
The company volunteers also actively participate in health camps organized by Max
India Foundation where patients are provided health advise by a team of doctors
from Max Healthcare. During 2009, Max India Foundation organized 15 health check
up and awareness camps benefiting 10,196 people.
"The opportunity to serve... is grace. To make a difference in someone's
life... a humble duty."- Analjit Singh, Chairman, Max
India Group
To know more about the activities of Max India Foundation visit
www.maxindiafoundation.org
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