Stanchart pledges to support various environmental conservation activities

The Standard Chartered Bank Head of Corporate Affairs Juanita Mramba (squatted) leads other bank staff and Ilala Municipal Officers in planting trees during the commemoration of the Environment Week yesterday. Photo by Staff Reporter.

A member of the Ilala Municipality digs holes for tree planting during an environmental conservation awareness drive done by Standard Chartered Bank at Kivukoni ward near Gymkhana Club in Dar es Salaam yesterday. Third from the left is the Standard Chartered Bank Head of Corporate Affairs Juanita Mramba.  Photo by Staff Photographer.

Standard Chartered Bank staff insert a tree in a hole during an environmental conservation awareness drive done at Kivukoni ward near Gymkhana Club in Dar es Salaam yesterday. The bank pledged to support various environmental conservation campaigns during the event.

By Staff Reporter

STANDARD Chartered Bank Tanzania has pledged to support various environmental conservation activities in a bid to create a better living environment.

The Bank’s Head of Corporate Affairs Juanita Mramba during the commemoration of the environment week yesterday that saw the bank plant various tree species at Kivukoni ward near Gymkhana Club said, adherence to good environment practices significantly reduces environmental risks and ecological scarcities.

 

Mramba said that it is on such a back ground that her bank has come up with a special environmental scheme that tends to minimize the use of wood products within the bank’s operations and services.

 

“Conservation of the environment should not be remembered in commemoration of the World Environment Day. This should be a daily routine that corporate companies and individuals should adhere to.

 

“At standard chartered bank, we have already instituted an environmentally friendly scheme that seeks to minimize on the use of wood products. It is my hope that many trees can be saved in a long run if other companies bring on board such a scheme,” Mramba said.

On his part the bank’s Health, Safety and Security Manager Justin Kussaga during the event called upon the public and other stake holders to join forces in a bid to come up with sustainable environmentally friendly projects.

 

But the Kivukoni Ward Executive Officer Abdul Msangule cautioned that companies needed to come up with best practice activities that should go along with ensuring the sustainability of the trees planted.

 

“These best practice activities should include continuous irrigation if the trees are to grow and serve their intended purposes otherwise we will be counting dead trees within years to come,” he cautioned.