Our Mission

At Cordoba Financial Group we strive to be as efficient as possible, not to maximise our profitability, but because we believe there is a direct link between efficiency and the customer service we offer; and because it enables us to work with our customers to make savings, to give more back to the community.

You are welcome to "tut-tut" at this approach; questioning if you are being polite our sanity, or if you are being ultra-negative, on the profitability of the company. In the world of the 21st century no-one can or should do anything for nothing, so we teach as being values that we rely on.

Unfortunately for the cynics we really believe in our charitable giving. Many philanthropists have shown that business is not only about making money . How much money do you need to make? Remembering that you can't take it with you when you die, then our Sharia values say not that much.

This is very important to us - we truly believe that businesses like ours should be involved with helping others where and when we can - simply because it can make a huge difference to people's lives and contribute to building better communities that we live in.

The jargon term for this is corporate social responsibility - it is something of a mantra among politicians of all political parties but at The Cordoba Gold^® it comes sincerely from the heart.

That's not difficult to understand when you have been invited to, for example, help an AIDS orphanage run by YCare International in the outskirt of Mangalore, a sprawling sea port city on the west coast of India. How we became involved in that orphanage is a long story but suffice to say spending just a few hours there with these lovely children brings incredible joy and a sense of overwhelming sadness.

The joy comes from the children's amazing vitality and the pleasure they show when you visit them. But the darker side of the story is that none of them have ever survived beyond the age of 14 and that's a terrible knowledge to have in the face of such childish innocence.

Then there can be very hard-hitting moments. During one of our visits a young women in our team was cradling what we assumed to be an 18-month old girl who was too weak to be even sit up on her own.

We were incredulous when we learnt that she was actually four years old but what shattered us even more was the fact that the shy retiring little girl in the corner, whom we took to be about 11 or 12, was her mother. She was just 15 and had been infected with AIDS as a child prostitute, fell pregnant and passed on the infection to her baby.

Having read this we think you will understand why and where we come from in this matter, and why we, along with several of our business partners, continue to support this orphanage which is doing so much with limited and simple resources.

The AIDS problem in India is growing and in the last year the number of children there has more than doubled to nearly 60.

Money helps and so does practical assistance. That's why one of our business partners, Easiprocess, has donated a 22-seater bus to take the children to school and act as a ambulance when needed, and why we have agreed to service and maintain the vehicle so it will never become a financial burden on that small community.

That project has been ongoing for some time but it serves to illustrate in the wider context how The Cordoba Gold^® cashplus prepaid Mastercard^® ethical (Sharia) principles find practical expression.

Then there is the contribution to water wells for people living in the Sahara. Some of the poorest people in the world for who water is more priceless than gold. Despite of this they live there life free from the material traps that we are caught in. In their poverty they have a dignity, a humanity and a joy that is unimaginable. A little support here goes a long way to adding value to daily life with something as simple as clean water.