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Mentoring the next Wangari Maathais

Mutatu Mutunga, a pupil at Muthwani primary school, is involved in a tree-planting project for schools in Embu, Kitui and Machakos counties. (PHOTO: COURTESY)

If Wangari Maathai was to rise from her ashes today, to find large swathes of land being cleared for ‘development’, and booming real estate, she would not be happy with today’s generation.

But there are children she would smile at, probably hug and make lifelong friends. These would be the pupils of 120 schools in three countries: Kitui, Embu and Machakos.

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