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Red Cross in record bid to plant 5 million trees in an hour

NAIROBI: The Kenya Red Cross Society plans to put the country on the world record map by planting five million trees in one hour.

The humanitarian organisation said it will make its bid to break the Guinness World Record in November in 19 regions across Kenya. If successful, the attempt, dubbed the Tree Challenge 2016, would double the current record held by the Philippines, which planted 2.4 million trees in one hour.

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