People and Community

Aksigorta embraces social responsibility in all its activities as a part of its core values of respect for people and social closeness. Aksigorta supports the active participation of people in cultural life with the aim of achieving sustainable development. Committed to providing value to society with its CSR investments, Aksigorta supports societal development with its various efforts in culture and arts.

Culture and Art Activities

Ekmekarası Theater Club, established by Aksigorta employees by combining amateur spirit and love for theater in 2008, took the stage in 2020 with Ray Cooney’s comedy masterpiece “Run for Your Wife.” Proceeds from the play were donated to help meet the needs of students with autism at Dereköy Ahmet Zeki Büyükkuşoğlu Elementary School. Plays performed by Ekmekarası Theater Club to date include: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Düdükçülerle Fırçacıların Savaşı,” “Ay Işığında Şamata,” “The Miser,” “Out of Order” and “Necati Bey’i Arıyorum.”

Six Tons of Food Donations

To date, Aksigorta has launched numerous projects to support animal welfare. This year, Aksigorta gave a helping hand to stray animals in need of care due to the coronavirus pandemic. Aksigorta donated a total of six tons of food to stray animals in Istanbul, Ankara, Bursa and Gaziantep during the year. In addition to its focus on human health during this challenging period, Aksigorta provided much needed support to stray animals as well.

Contribution to Sports

Aksigorta provides ongoing sponsorship support to women athletes. Under the sponsorship of Aksigorta and in conjunction with KASIDER foundation, ITU GVO Sports Club athletes represented Turkey at the World Club Cup. The competition was held by the World Underwater Federation February 21-24, 2020 in Hungary/Eger. The athletes of ITU GVO Sports Club included 1,500 Meters World Junior Champion Ayşe Ceren Yeşilbaş, 50 Meters Underwater & 50 Meters Flag World Junior Runner Up Beril Ülker and National Team Coaches Alper Erkmen and Eşref Ayvaz. These Turkish representatives participated in the World and European Championships with Aksigorta’s sponsorship support.

Aksigorta is committed to fostering social development in addition to the new generation perspective it has brought to the insurance industry. To this end, Aksigorta sponsored the 20th TED Republican Girls International Tennis Tournament in 2020.

Sabancı Foundation

Aksigorta donates a certain amount of its profit before tax to the Sabancı Foundation every year. The activities of the Sabancı Foundation includes the following;

Embracing the late Hacı Ömer Sabancı’s life philosophy of “sharing what we have obtained from this land with its people,” the Sabancı family established the Hacı Ömer Sabancı Foundation (Sabancı Foundation) in 1974 to organize all their philanthropic activities under one organization.

Sabancı Group harnesses the power of its industrial and economic advancements to support social and cultural activities through the Sabancı Foundation. As such, it has become one of the leading family foundations in Turkey. Sabancı Foundation’s financial resources consist of donations by the Sabancı Family and Sabancı Group, and revenues generated from the Foundation’s various assets.

Sabancı Foundation has built more than 120 institutions all around Turkey in 78 residential areas, such as schools, dormitories, teachers’ centers, medical facilities, sports complexes, cultural centers and social facilities for 46 years since its foundation. Since 2007, 173 projects of non-governmental organizations have been supported. In the field of culture and arts, long-term supports are being provided particularly for example to State Theaters - Sabancı International Adana Theater Festival which has been organized for 22 years. Having provided nearly 50 thousand scholarships in 46 years, Sabancı Foundation encourages success with awards in the fields of education, art and sports.

The vision of the Sabancı Foundation is “a society where all individuals enjoy their rights equally.”

Education, social change, culture and the arts comprise the Foundation’s main areas of activity. The Foundation particularly focuses on women, youth and persons with disabilities within these activities.