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Plant for the Planet -Kenya

Since its inception, approximately 450,000 trees have been planted with Plant for the Planet all over Kenya, and over 2,000 kilograms of seeds have also been distributed for the creation of nurseries

A major tree-planting event took place from 27 March to 01 April 2006 in Kisumu, the first Millennium City (as declared by Jeffrey Sachs, the UN Special Adviser on Millennium Development Goals.) Together with the Kisumu Municipal Council, UNEP planted 10,000 trees in schools, public parks and along the main roads. In addition, forty more thousand trees were also planted by 149 schools in Greater Kisumu committed themselves to planting 40,000 seedlings.

To mirror the Kisumu event, schools in and around Nairobi planted 15,000 trees during the same period as Kisumu schools, marking the transition into the final phase of the campaign. In keeping with the overall vision of the campaign, we hope that this project will instil a culture of natural resource conservation in young people. The next two and a half years are going to be eventful as we have some way to go to reach our target of planting 1 million trees by the end of 2008.

 

 

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