Kuwait Gulf Bank’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) was awarded the ‘Special CSR Award’ at the Arabian Business Awards Kuwait at the JumeriahMessilah Beach Hotel.

This award reinforces the position of Gulf Bank as a leader in the field of social responsibility, each year our CSR program supports a variety of initiatives, related to youth empowerment; education; health and fitness; as well as culture and community service.

Gulf Bank’s CSR programs cover a range of areas, some of the main areas are outlined as follows. To address one of the most important strategic challenges for our country, and the region, Gulf Bank has undertaken a number of youth education and skills development programs. One of our major yearly sponsorships is our ongoing partnerships with INJAZ Kuwait, with a high level of employees volunteering their time to help INJAZ deliver Arabic and English language education programs on entrepreneurial and leadership skills to encourage high school and university students to build successful careers. The Banks also sponsors the the National Union of Kuwaiti Students (NUKS) conference in the USA, where it delivers skills and entrepreneurial workshops to attendees. It also sponsored the Tmkeen Youth Empowerment Symposium, a Kuwaiti entrepreneurship initiative created and delivered by Kuwaiti youth to the youth in Kuwait. In order to reach out the government and its young employees, the Bank sponsored the ‘Jahazeen 2’ training and development program, which was developed in cooperation with Kuwaiti’s Manpower and Government Restructuring Program (MGRP) to provide skills training to young employees.