Youth groups are a prominent element in the Total Eco Challenge, and a bronze award
goes to a team that has planted 65,000 trees in Nyanza.
The RACHUONYO ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SOCIETY
With a confirmed planting of 80,000 trees in Thika, Kiambu and Githunguri, a bronze
award goes to a trust led by the amazing Mrs Kiarie.
The RUIRU ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION TRUST.
More than 30 community groups in the Machakos area have combined so succesfully that they
exhausted the existing stock of 70,000 seedlings and have now started nurseries to ensure
future supplies. A silver award goes to MUKURWEINI FRIENDS OF ENVIRONMENT.
There has also been fantastic increase in outreach and involvement and numbers in
Budalangi, with combined efforts planting 730,000 trees in the past year. A gold award
goes to the people knon as GEPAO – which stands for
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION ORGANIZATION
Also winning gold is a local council that has joined the tree planting movement with such
commitment and enthusiasm that they planted 1.2 million trees throughout their area of
jurisdiction in 2009. That's MOMBASA MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.
Another gold award goes to an organization that focuses on planting where the job is
often hardest. Yet over an area stretching several hundred kilometers between the coast
and Machakos they have planted nearly 1 million trees in the year. The award goes to
SEMI ARID REGIONS ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
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