SEDCO Holding Group won two awards at the 2019 Gulf Sustainability and CSR Awards ceremony held recently in Dubai. The company took home the awards for the “Best Learning and Education Program” for the Riyali financial literacy program, and “CSR Team of the Year.”
“We are truly privileged to be recognized for the hard work and efforts put forth to make SEDCO’s CSR programs a great success,” said Abdulrahman Al-Turjuman, acting head, marketing and CSR at SEDCO Holding. “We are all the more honored because the Gulf Sustainability and CSR Awards are recognized as the ultimate accolade of excellence in the world of sustainability and CSR across the region.”
SEDCO’s two main CSR programs are Badir and Riyali. Badir, which means “initiate” in Arabic, is the company’s flagship volunteering program. Employees at SEDCO are expected to volunteer not less than 20 hours per year toward giving back to the community through sustainable volunteering programs sourced by SEDCO’s CSR team.
Riyali, launched in 2012, is SEDCO’s flagship financial literacy program, focused on educating the Saudi youth, and society at large, on better personal financial planning. To date, the program has reached more than 550,000 beneficiaries across the Kingdom, with the aim to reach 2 million by 2020.
Meanwhile, Nahdi Medical Company, a SEDCO Holding Group company, won an award for the best cause-related marketing campaign.
