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No Card

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Buses at the Kingfisher Picnic site Undiscriminating: Tree planting is above all the lines of discrimination   Planning and organizing for an activity that draws people from all walks of life is likely to fail where different cards of race, tribe, religion, age, position or status are played. Tree planting exercise has proved to be one key uniting activity that is above board on card games of discrimination. The recently conducted tree planting campaign under the Plant Your Age initiative of Green Africa Foundation proved that man is ready to join hands and forget all the other cards that play in other platforms and keep the unity card high up. The Kenya and the world we all dream to have is one where nothing shall discriminate us as mankind. The tree planting exercise that went down at the Nairobi National Park on the 17 th November 2012 brought together people of different races and tribes together in a noble activity that seeks to secure our future generations agains

The Journey to 2030

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Focus: Successes so far and what needs to be prioritized Kenya Vision 2030 is an economic development plan by the Kenyan government to develop several different economic zones in various parts of the country. The plan aims to produce annual economic growth rates of 10%. The Kenya Vision 2030 is anchored on three pillars; the Economic, Social and Political. Under the Social pillar of Vision 2030 Kenya aims to be a nation that has a clean, secure and sustainable environment . The goals that would facilitate the realization of the aims under Social pillar are to increase forest cover from less than 3% at present to 10%; and to lessen by half all environment-related diseases. Different players and stakeholders have been involved with ensuring that this is achieved. Green Africa Foundation through an initiative Plant Your Age recently held an event calling on Kenyans to plant trees equivalent to their age during short rains period with the climax of the event being a tree plantin

Obama victory

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Lessons from his win Its Obama again and the frenzy of his win has brought with it several opportunities for us a nation and lessons to learn from. To the politicians, it’s a great lesson we can learn of how mature democracies conduct their elections. Accepting defeat by a loser in any election is vital for the progress of the nation and displays maturity of their democracy. President Obama with the family on stage during his election night rally in Chicago To the business world, it’s the curiosity and innovativeness of some business people to make business kills. Merchandise about the Obama’s or their portrait has been mass produced and marketed. Now calendar’s about Obama, parties celebrated in his honor, DVD’s of his speech, Books about him among many others will be on sale. While some are celebrating his win others are making profit and money from the merchandise. To the society, a coordinated teamwork produce excellent results. His campaign secretariat worked tirele