Standard Chartered Bank in tree planting Activity

Staff of Standard Chartered Bank on Saturday, planted two thousand trees at the Grafton Scout Camp in the outskirts of Freetown, as part of their employee volunteering month. The event which took place after a long walk to the planting site where the staff were welcomed by one of the scouters ‘Kelfala’, who thanked them for coming and showed them the trees they planted last year. He said that this year, the planting exercise will be divided into two, with one thousand to be planted on one side and on the far end, the remaining will be planted.
Speaking on behalf of the bank, the chief executive officer Albert Saltson, said that climate change is the greatest environmental challenge facing the world today and there are many factors responsible, including global temperatures which brings about changes in weather patterns. He went further to say that across the globe therefore, the impact of climate change is already being felt and this is especially the case in many of the bank’s market including Sierra Leone.
‘The bank takes their responsibility towards protecting the environment very seriously, and the enthusiastic involvement of our employees is essential to help us achieve our own carbon footprint targets and promotes environmental standards amongst customers and other stakeholders in communities where we operate’, he concluded.
He also went further to say that in fulfillment of our global environmental pledge, Standard Chartered Bank Sierra Leone continues to complement Government’s environmental agenda through several environmental initiatives, previously undertaken.
Demonstration on how the trees should be planted was done by Loid Muranah, while a statement was also made by Cyril Konneh, who is the Assistant Director of Forestry, in the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Food Security. Planting of the trees by the staff, formed the highlight of the programme. Some of the trees planted were Melianah Aboria which is commonly called (yemani) and cashew. The program ended with staff of the bank planting different trees.
By Nancy Koroma