Youth turn to planting trees as income venture

Youth are trained on the conservation of forests in Taita Taveta, earlier in the month. [Hezron Kimari, Standard]

Tree planting in Kenya has for years been a rite of passage to adulthood for boys or a way to pass time for some as they wait to land their ideal job.

But for Marion Otema, a student at Strathmore University, Josephine Wughanga, an agro-forestry graduate, and Collins Towet it is their way of making a living.