How plant your age move can push Ruto's forest cover dream

President William Ruto plants a tree during the official opening of Devki steel Limited at Samburu in Kwale County. [Omondi Onyango,Standard]

Almost four out of ten Kenyans are poor. According to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, nearly ten million of the remaining 30.39 million are classified as 'floating middle-class.'

This means that they are one financial shock away from poverty. In other words, a singular financial crisis occasioned by events like a major medical bill or a job loss, would shove them straight into poverty.