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Insurance company joins green initiative campaign
February 15, 2022 / Bester Kayaye
One of the local insurance firms in the country, General Alliance Insurance Limited says it is committed to work with different stakeholders in conserving environment through afforestation.
The company’s head of corporate affairs, Pamela Mazengela made the remarks during a tree planting exercise in Michiru Forest.
The campaign sponsored by General Alliance Insurance Limited, with 2,000 tree seedlings is promoted by Sustain Green Campaign.
According to Mazengela the 2,000 seedlings are an initial contribution for this year’s tree planting season. Other contributions are expected to be made to various stakeholders across the country.
She said; “We donated trees to sustain a green Malawi as part of our corporate social responsibility and giving back to the environment having realized the impact of carbon emissions from the vehicles we insurer has on the environment.”
“This is just a preamble as we plan to plant trees in Blantyre, Lilongwe Mzuzu and Zomba.”
In her remarks, Idah Mbalume who is a plantation manager at Michiru forest commended General Alliance for the gesture saying that it has complimented their efforts in restoring vegetative cover of the forest which has encountered several setbacks in previous years.
Mbalume said; “It is imperative that corporate entities like General Alliance are coming our way with these tree planting exercises which is very welcoming, as it helps us to save on labour costs since we have limited capacity to recruit more labourers to work on this forest.”
“As Michiru forest we intend to plant at least 20 thousand tree seedlings during this year’s tree planting season, and I would therefore urge other companies to emulate the good gesture portrayed by this insurance firm in giving back to environment.”
The Sustain Green Campaign which runs under hashtag #Plant4TheFuture initiative, is comprised of 22 young people who found synergy on creating solutions for reforestation and their goal is to plant 1million trees across Malawi in areas highly affected with deforestation as well as creating awareness in primary schools by involving students to plant trees at the campus and in their homes.
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