{"id":58714,"date":"2018-01-08T10:05:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T08:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=58714"},"modified":"2018-01-08T10:05:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T08:05:52","slug":"national-bank-of-malawi-takes-go-green-campaign-to-mzuzu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/01\/08\/national-bank-of-malawi-takes-go-green-campaign-to-mzuzu\/","title":{"rendered":"National Bank of Malawi takes go green campaign to Mzuzu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Bank of Malawi (NBM) on Saturday partnered Moyale Barracks and planted 1,200 trees in Kaning\u2019ina Forest Reserve in Mzuzu.<br \/>\nNBM Mzuzu Service Centre Manager, Eric Munthali, said the initiative is part of the bank\u2019s corporate social responsibility (CSR) and a way of creating an environment friendly to their clientele.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are a financial institution, but today we are into this because we are operating in an environment where we are trying to reach out to our customers, so that members of the public are not negatively affected by issues of depletion of the environment,\u201d Munthali said.<br \/>\nHe said the bank will continue sponsoring the event with (Malawi Defence Force) as one way of sustaining the environment and also enhancing their relationship.<br \/>\nMDF Brigadier General, Dennis Mtanji, said forests provide training grounds for the soldiers hence the need to protect them.<br \/>\n\u201cThe initiative has come from MDF Commander who decided that we should s tar t guarding forests in the country like Dzalanyama and Chikangawa. Safe guarding these forests is crucial to us in order to have training areas because we cannot train at football grounds,\u201d Mtanji said.<br \/>\nMzuzu City Mayor, William Mkandawire, commended MDF and the NBM for the gesture and requested members of the community to be responsible in protecting and replanting trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Bank of Malawi (NBM) on Saturday partnered Moyale Barracks and planted 1,200 trees in Kaning\u2019ina Forest Reserve in Mzuzu. NBM Mzuzu Service Centre Manager, Eric Munthali, said the initiative is part of the bank\u2019s corporate social responsibility (CSR) and a way of creating an environment friendly to their clientele. \u201cWe are a financial institution, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58714","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\/58714","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=58714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58717,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58714\/revisions\/58717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}