Stratcom launches Garden and Flower Show

By
Julius K. Satsi, GNA

Accra, Sept. 11, GNA – Strategic
Communications Africa (Stratcom Africa), a total communications and reputation
management agency, has affirmed its commitment to greening Ghana through the
annual Ghana Garden and Flower Show.

Speaking at the launch of the Show, Madam
Esther Cobbah, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Stratcom Africa, said
the company had organised the event since 2013 as a national behavioural change
campaign.

She said the company sought to work with
Ghanaians to ensure that there was an attitudinal change towards floriculture
and horticulture by promoting a greener, cleaner, healthier, wealthier and more
beautiful Ghana.

The theme for this year’s Ghana Garden and
Flower Show, scheduled for September 20 to 26, is: “Enriching Ghana: One Garden
at a Time.”

Madam Cobbah said as part of the event, there
would be a conference to discuss and explore how floriculture and horticulture
could help the country.

Other activities outlined for the Show are
party in the park, music in the park, and fashion in the park – a garden themed
fashion, to help people see the importance of green spaces to relaxation.

Madam Cobbah said the major activity of the
Show would be the exhibition of flowers and plants that were available in the
country and also showcase garden ornaments among other things in the country’s
floriculture and horticulture space.

There would also be taste of the park, where
Ghanaian meals, prepared with ingredients from Ghana and decorating with
flowers, would be served.

Madam Cobbah said: “We want Ghanaians to
understand that Flowers and Gardens are part of our lives” adding that God
created man and placed him in the Garden and instructed him to cultivate and
not to destroy it.

On his part, Dr Edward Botchway, the Chief
Finance Officer and Executive Director at Ecobank Ghana, said Ecobank, as a
partner of this year’s event, was committed to a green environment.

He said Ecobank was a strong advocate for a
green Ghana and a greener Africa in general, adding that the partnership with
Stratcom Africa was appropriate because the two had similar goals of greening
the environment.

He said the Bank had ensured that its Head
Office’s edifice was compliant with the Carbon Footprint and its related
agreements, and committed to the reduction of carbons.

Mr Botchway said last year the Bank saved 2.3
million sheets of paper by going digital through the introduction of the
Ecobank Mobile App.

He said the introduction of the App also
helped to reduce the distance that a client would have travelled in a day by
transacting banking activities from home, thereby reducing clients’ carbon
footprints.

Prior to the launch, the Stratcom team and a
section of the media went on a walk in a garden at Nima, where women had cultivated
vegetables and plants to provide some green scenery in their homes.

Madam Mariam Salifu, the Chairperson of the
Mothers Club in Development at Nima, said they were inspired to take to
planting vegetables and plants in their homes when the German Development
Cooperation agreed to help them in that endeavour.

She said 250 women were trained and sieved
down to 20 to receive support to cultivate plants like passion fruit and
cocoyam.

GNA 

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