I am so  pleased to read and share with all of you about "Being Green"initiative of Centro Sharjah-a hotel of famous Rotana Brand   .

Centro Sharjah employees  joined hand-in-hand to come out with one goal, to promote Rotana Earth and Centro Sharjah as an eco-friendly hotel. Centro Sharjah "Being Green" initiative was started in May and they planted within the vicinity of the hotel different types of vegetables like: cucumber, tomato, spinach peppers, chillies, etc. with the collective efforts of staff members .

After the two months of efforts to see their results, recently the staff celebrated the harvesting week to harvest the first vegetables and share what they have planted. They were very excited to see what they reaped from what they sowed.

Centro Sharjah has a big landscape which is an advantage to grow vegetables organically. There are few employees who have good experience of growing vegetables in their home countries so their knowledge was very handy in this initiative . The hotel formed a committee headed by the Chief Engineer and the EHS Manager that will look the development of the garden to make sure that is properly taken care of. Other colleagues were taught how to grow and take care of the garden, like how many times it should be watered, where and when to replant and learn the benefits of organic gardening.

This  first organic garden and the first vegetable harvested within two months was extremely successful and now the hotel is  planning to add more fruits and see what are the best vegetables and fruits that could be planted during summer and winter .

Sources :

http://www.gulftoday.ae/portal/b216a73c-3756-44b9-a347-21ea25fb099e.aspx

http://www.emiratesweek.com/2014/07/60448