Archive for the 'Green Globe' Category
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Employees of Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa are keeping Aruba clean!
On Wednesday the 18th of August a group of employees of Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa volunteered again to participate in the monthly ‘Sponsor A Mile’.
Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa has been a Certified Green Globe Resort - Gold Level for many years making certain Aruba’s pristine environment is effected as little as possible by its business operation.
At the Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa we promise to preserve a safe and healthy environment for the island of Aruba, its people and visiting guests. Through teamwork, commitment and enthusiasm management of Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa follow the Green Globe standards, laws, regulations and standards of the island of Aruba and educates its staff, guests, suppliers and community to build environmental awareness and action Reduces, Reuses, & Recycles throughout the property to prevent and control pollution while supporting the local merchants.
Manchebo was first benchmarked against the Green Globe Standards on June 19, 2003 and was later assessed and proudly certified on October 4, 2003. The Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism (CAST) awarded Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa in the year 2005 the title for “Most Improved Benchmarking Performance in the Caribbean”. In its recognition to deliver continuous environmental improvements and to secure a sustainable future for the business the resort became the first Certified Green Globe Resort by achieving the prestigious Green Globe Certified Gold status in January 2008 under the global Certification program of EC3 Global.
The resort’s Green Team continues to support the environment and the community through means of sponsorship, supporting of local musical scholarships, charitable fundraising, local school support, contributions to the Aruba Reef Care Project, Annual Coastal Clean-ups and the monthly Sponsor-A-Mile!
Thank you all for keeping Aruba clean!!
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Employees of Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa are keeping Aruba clean!
On Wednesday the 21st of July a group of employees of Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa volunteered again to participate in the monthly ‘Sponsor A Mile’. Garbage bags full of beer bottles and plastic straws were removed from the parking lot of Alhambra Casino and surroundings and Kevin cleaned our beautiful beach thoroughly!
We would like to thank our employees for keeping Aruba clean!!
Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa has been a Certified Green Globe Resort - Gold Level for many years making certain Aruba’s pristine environment is effected as little as possible by its business operation.
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Manchebo celebrates Earth Day & cleans Hospital district
Employees of Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa celebrated Earth Day on April 22, 2010 from 8:00 to 9:30 am. Over 25 volunteered to clean up the area around Dr. Horacio Oduber Hospital. Garbage bags full of cans, cigarettes, plastics, bottles and more were collected during this clean-up. After one hour and a half of hard working in the sun the resort provided a small breakfast buffet to thank their volunteers for helping to keep Aruba, our One Happy Island clean.
The second Earth Day activity at Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa was the Recycling Competition. All the employees had one week to create a nice project from recycled materials. Three jury’s decided who had the most creative, original and functional project and they were rewarded with cash prizes. A waste basket made from recycled carton and paper obtained the first prize other winners were made of recycled materials like coconuts, banana leaves, beer cans and caps, foam and much more.
The intimate Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa is a Gold Green Globe certified hotel, which is a certificate in recognition of their efforts to deliver continuous environmental improvements and to secure a sustainable future for the business and the island. Manchebo also gives preference to, wherever possible, employing local people and purchasing local products and services with minimal negative environmental impact. To prevent and control pollution Manchebo reduces, reuses & recycles throughout the property and by educating our staff, guests, suppliers and community they want to build environmental awareness and action.
With Teamwork, Commitment and Enthusiasm Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa preserves a safe and healthy environment for the Island of Aruba, its people and visiting guests! Visit our website for more information.
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Manchebo Beach Aruba - The Home to Turtle Nests
The lovely season of the Leatherback Sea Turtle has started again. The turtles return to their natal beach in order to nest during the turtle-nesting season, which starts around April and normally by August the turtles are all hatched.
Manchebo Beach is the home to multiple nests of the Leatherback Sea Turtle each year. Normally one female makes about 7 nests per season with an interval of 9 or 10 days. She lays about 115 eggs a clutch. The eggs on the beach are protected with red & white barricades.
Turtugaruba, the local foundation that protects the sea turtles in and around Aruba, monitor the beaches every morning at daybreak. Eagle Beach is patrolled not only at dawn but also at night, whenever a female Leatherback is expected to return for her next nest, which could be between 22.00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m. The turtle nests are protected during incubation (60-70 days) and hatching. It is estimated that only 1 in 1000 hatchlings survives to maturity. In 2008 the volunteers of Turtugaruba spotted, monitored and protected more than 48 nests on Eagle Beach and more on Boca Grandi and Parke Arikok. Let’s hope this year will be good as well!
Guests of the Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa can sign up their name on the “Turtle Watch List” at the front desk and be informed by telephone in their room when a turtle is nesting or when a nest of baby turtles is hatching. It is a wonderful experience and it will definitely be a motivation for you to help protecting these amazing creatures and wildlife in general. If you are interested to join the hatching of the turtles on our beach or if you want more information, please contact the front desk: 582-3444. To protect a nesting turtle or a nest, call Turtugaruba: 964-9138 or for more information visit their web site at www.turtugaruba.org.
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Employees of Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa Aruba continuing Sponsor A Mile in 2010!
On Wednesday the 20th of January a group of employees of Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa volunteered again to participate in the monthly ‘Sponsor A Mile’. Garbage bags full of beer bottles and plastic straws were removed from the parking lot of Alhambra Casino and surroundings and Kevin cleaned our beautiful beach thoroughly!
We would like to thank our employees for keeping Aruba clean!!
Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa has been a Certified Green Globe Resort - Gold Level for many years making certain Aruba’s pristine environment is effected as little as possible by its business operation.
Monday, September 7th, 2009
Manchebo’s Health Week 2009 has started
Monday September 7th 2009 at 8:00, Manchebo’s Healthweek has started with a holy mass guided by Father Jacob.
This is the 5th year that Manchebo has been organizing the Health Week. During the mass Father Jacob elaborated
on health prevention and how this will benefit both the employees and the Resort. It was very nice ceremony, and
at the end Father Jacob has blessed each employee and the organizers of the Health Week.
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Gold Green Globe certified hotel Manchebo preserves a safe and healthy environment for the Island of Aruba!
The intimate Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa located on Eagle Beach, the most beautiful white beach and turquoise Blue Ocean of Aruba, promises to follow the Green Globe 21 Company Standards and the laws, regulations and standards of Aruba.
The resort is a “Gold Green Globe” certified hotel, which is a certificate in recognition of their efforts to deliver continuous environmental improvements and to secure a sustainable future for the business. Manchebo also gives preference to, wherever possible, employing local people and purchasing local products and services with minimal negative environmental impact.
To prevent and control pollution Manchebo reduces, reuses & recycles throughout the property and by educating our staff, guests, suppliers and community we want to build environmental awareness and action.
Every third Wednesday of the month Manchebo invites its employees and guests to participate in the ‘Sponsor a Mile’ program to keep Aruba clean. For one hour the participants voluntary clean up the beach, parking lot and the street. Garbage bags full of cigarettes, plastics and even pieces of glass are collected after each clean up.
Beside the clean-ups, Manchebo protects hatching turtles by turning off the lights, not driving or littering on the beach, leaving vegetation in place and by not approaching the animals.
Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa also demonstrates its involvement with activities concerning many sections of the local community by organizing a yearly mother’s day brunch for the elderly, raising funds for the construction of a new center for the blinds, helping an orphanage home with a transportation van and more charity donations and funds raising.
With Teamwork, Commitment and Enthusiasm Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa preserves a safe and healthy environment for the Island of Aruba, its people and visiting guests!
