Tree Planting in Karura Forest
Tree Planting in Karura Forest
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On the 1st of April 2007, we went to the Karura forest for a tree planting ceremony arranged by the Governor of Lions club in Nairobi and Dr. Shah. The total number of saplings planted was a 1000 sapling. Karura forest is one of the main forests in Kenya. It is 12km from Nairobi. The trees in Karura forest are cut a lot for settlements and use of firewood.
A lot of people were invited to help in the planting of these saplings.
We had recently grown 500 saplings from which we donated 50 for this ceremony and it was planted by the ‘Mathari Valley group’. We began the ceremony with speeches given by different important people in the Lions club and the recent junior board from Africa, Naylee Nagda spoke a poem on saving trees. After this each important person planted one tree and then they had an agreement that the settlements living near by would take care of the trees. We planted for the next two hours and the children living nearby also helped. In the end of the tree planting ceremony I presented a donation box to Dr. Shah in which I had collected money which would be used to buy saplings.
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