Aon Solutions Ltd is committed to sponsoring
community projects with the aim of promoting the welfare of
a pre-identified vulnerable group. This is done through a
participative fun day whilst serving to help the company
meet its more recent legal CSR requirement of 2% of net
profits. Community-focused projects serve to strengthen
links by involving the ¨hands-on¨ participation of members
of staff and their families with the company providing the
necessary funds for the purchase of equipment and materials
required. Community projects usually take place outside
office hours to add to the “giving” spirit.
Community Project at Domaine Les
Pailles in the company of the Muscular Dystrophy Association
(MDA)
This year, the CSR team had been moved by
the actions of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). MDA
is the only association for muscular dystrophy in Mauritius
and so far it has taken care of sixty- four patients suffering
from different types of dystrophy. There is no cure for the
disease and the life expectancy of a patient is on average
thirty years. Early therapy, such as physiotherapy, can help
to slow down the progression of the disease and therefore
allows the patient to lead a better life with more autonomy
and mobility for a longer period. We had identified the
following two projects with the MDA:
Our CSR day was held in the company of the
patients and their care-givers at Domaine Les Pailles on
Saturday 23 June 2012. They had the opportunity to go on a
choo-choo tour around the Domaine on the train "Lady Alice".
We all had lunch at La Cannelle restaurant accompanied
by merry, gladdening and lively entertainment. We were in
the company of approximately one hundred and thirty-five
persons from the MDA family, including around forty patients
(all of whom are wheelchair users), on that day.
We shall be financing the physiotherapy sessions of the
five most needy muscular dystrophy sufferers over a period
of eight months.
