The following institutions/societies have also joined the Challenge:
A society which has planted more than 100,000 trees this year, in schools and municipalities.
MULTI-TOUCH INTERNATIONAL.
Here in Nairobi, children and youth groups who integrate sports with the environment in
Kibera, with help from companies like Safaricom and Sadili Oval, are a group called
SPORTS FOR LIFE.
In the bronze category, people of all ages who ride bicycles for fun…and plant trees and collect
seeds wherever they go, and award goes to: WHEELS OF AFRICA.
At Ngara, unemployed youths are planting and caring for huge numbers of trees in the
Nairobi River basin. With the support of the Ministries of Youth and Environment, the
Forest Service, Heritage and CDF, the driving force is the local chief's office.
The silver award thus goes to THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, STAREHE LOCATION
One of the most dramatic changes of the year has come from nurserymen in Limuru, who
have found another gear to more than double their plantings to quarter of a million. A silver
award goes to the TREE NURSERY OPERATORS SELF-HELP GROUP.
Our next award winner is a major tree planter in its own right and it also supports literally
dozens of other projects countrywide, injecting millions of shillings of resources and achieving
plantings well in excess of 1 million in the year – and year after year.
This special award winner is SAFARICOM.
Our final award this year goes to an organization that has championed trees not just for
one or two or even 10 years. They have been at it for more than two decades, and this year
reached a milestone that proves a template that could impact the lives of all Kenyans for all time.
As well as planting new trees, they have assured the future of hundreds of millions of existing trees
– by fencing one of Kenya's most important and unique indigenous forests – in the Aberdares and
Mt Kipipiri. This special award goes to the RHINO ARK TRUST.
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