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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 17th November 2012 brought together people of different races and tribes together in a noble activity that seeks to secure our future generations against harsh lessons of neglecting our environment.
As it is said “Age is nothing but a number” nothing could stop both the old and the young in gracing the event. Pupils of different primary schools and students of different colleges joined hands with the older folks in being counted during this event at the park. Children as young as one year old came also to plant their age.
University of Nairobi Muslim Students Association
Religious division and discrimination in the past has cost the lives of many innocent people in our society and that tension has always been evident in other platforms where different religious group converge. Tree planting exhibited that it can be cause where people can gather together and mingle freely despite their various different religious faiths. 


Green Ambassador Stephen Njoroge leading the people

Harambee Primary School pupils

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