The Aureol Insurance Company Ltd has on Friday January 28, 2022 started a year-long 35th anniversary celebration with athanksgiving at the Masjid Hamdallah, Naimbana Street in Freetown.
The thanksgiving was well attended by Board of Directors, Managing Director and other staff of the Company.
The Managing Director of Aureol Insurance Company, Raymond Macaulay said, “Today marks the starting of our 35th anniversary.”
He said that it has been a tradition that,when they are celebrate every five years, they start with a thanksgiving service, and that they are mosque to commence the Muslim prayer to give thanks to Allah for the 35 years of their existence.
He disclosed that the Company has Directors, shareholders and staff who are Muslims, and thus they usually do an Islamic thanksgiving and Christian thanksgiving, stating that the Christian thanksgiving will be held on February 6.
He said that in the year-long activities, they will also recognize their staff for their meritorious services over the years.
He point out that the Insurance is very important in society because it can indemnify you when there is an accident.
“Now, you build a house and within a twinkle of an eye, you have a fire accident that destroys it to ground level. So, without the Insurance policy, it means that you have to find enough money to build your house again, but if you have insurance, the insurance Company will indemnify you – meaning the Company will put you in the same financial position you were before the damage occurred.”
He stated that primarily, the aim of insurance is to bring you back to where you were.
Speaking on their achievements, he said that they have paid significant claims, as far back as the year when Aureol Insurance was established in 1987 when they paid the PZ claims.
“We have paid life claims, death claims, and apart from claims, we have also contributed to the development of the economy,” the Managing Director said.
He added that they are paying their taxes since the inception of the Company, shareholder’s dividends and provide employment for over 60 staff. Said that the company had wonInternational awards.
He said that they want to ply the route of digitalization and financial inclusive thereby bringing onboard the informer sector.
In his sermons, the Chief Imam of Masjid Hamdallah, Sheik Abu Bakarr Centeh said that thanksgiving is a strong pillar of worship.
He said that the Board members, staff and other stakeholders of the Company have come to give thanks to Allah for their 35 years of successful existence.
“Some people have wrong notion about insurance. They will say, they will not insure their property or even insure their life,” he said.
“The notion that it is Allah that owns your life is indeed true, but you can insure it against fire accident,” he said. He said that Islam will support activities that are trying to develop man, disclosing that it was Islam that started life insurance.
By Stephen V. Lansana