100,000 flowers for women of Bahrain!

It is going to be raining lilies, roses and orchids for the women of Bahrain on Monday as a local businessman has decided to give out 100,000 flowers to the fair sex to celebrate the country’s first Women’s Day.

It is going to be raining lilies, roses and orchids for the women of Bahrain on Monday as a local businessman has decided to give out 100,000 flowers to the fair sex to celebrate the country’s first Women’s Day.

The initiative is costing Rolanda Flowers owner Ahmed Malik around $80,640, but he says it’s worth the amount to show that Bahrain respects women. Bahrain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced it is organising December 1 as Bahraini Women’s Day, which will be celebrated on the same date every year.

Malik is also hoping to make it to the Guinness World Records to ensure the message is heard on global scale. “I was reading one of the magazines in October on how King Hamad decided to celebrate the first Women’s Day in Bahrain and thought I should do something to support this,” he told the Gulf Daily News. “When I travel, people say that we treat women very bad, that we keep them in the house and I say it is not true. The woman is a mother, a sister, a wife, a daughter. She is the centre of a family and keeps everything going,” he said.

Malik added that in Bahrain women are working in ministries, in parliament and we want the whole world to see that women here are living and working normally and they deserve to be rewarded for their hard work and contribution.

The flowers including lilies, carnations, orchids, and roses will be distributed by Rolanda Flowers, Nawal Flowers and volunteers at malls, offices, ministries, schools and universities. Pinned to each flower will be a card congratulating women on the occasion.