{"id":17950,"date":"2016-02-01T10:01:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T08:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=17950"},"modified":"2016-02-01T10:01:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T08:01:04","slug":"sunbird-bcc-partner-in-tree-planting-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/02\/01\/sunbird-bcc-partner-in-tree-planting-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunbird, BCC partner in tree planting exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitality unit, Sunbird Tourism Limited last Friday partnered with the Blantyre City Council (BCC) in a tree planting exercise along the banks of Blantyre\u2019s Mudi River.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is part of the Sunbird Hotel\u2019s corporate social responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Sunbird\u2019s chief executive officer Rodger Gardner and Deputy Mayor for Blantyre City Willard Ndipo led in planting of the 6,000 seedlings along the Mudi river.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the task, Gardner said the initiative was meant to help conserve nature as part of the company\u2019s responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like our guests, both local and international not only to enjoy Sunbird Mount Sochi here in Blantyre but the entire city as well,\u201d said Gardner.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, Ndipo expressed gratitude for the initiative while also calling other players from the private sector to emulate the example.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we join hands, we will surely reclaim the lost glory of the city,\u201d said Ndipo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitality unit, Sunbird Tourism Limited last Friday partnered with the Blantyre City Council (BCC) in a tree planting exercise along the banks of Blantyre\u2019s Mudi River. The initiative is part of the Sunbird Hotel\u2019s corporate social responsibility. Sunbird\u2019s chief executive officer Rodger Gardner and Deputy Mayor for Blantyre City Willard Ndipo led in planting of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17954,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17950\/revisions\/17954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}