School Tree Planting Highlights Wangari Maathai's Legacy, September 2011

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The pupils of Kapkenda Girls High School in Keiyo Marakwet county, western Kenya, held a tree-planting ceremony during September, evoking the memory of the late environmentalist and activist, Wangari Maathai.
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The Forest Queens Beauty Project, which aims to restore Kenyas forest cover by planting millions of trees in the next five years, holds an annual beauty pageant for the Forest Queen who acts a tree-planting ambassador.
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Top Kenyan education official James Kiyiapi, left, with chairman of the Kagoech Foundation, Micah Kigen, at the event.
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Professor Kiyiapi addresses pupils.
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A banner proclaimed the campaign and its aim to green the district.