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Environmentalist Kalua leads mourners to plant 101 trees to honour Kitui Centenarian

Dr Isaac Kalua Green, the Chief Steward of Green Africa Foundation and a reknown environmentalist helps a school children plant trees during one of the Plant Your Age inititiaves. On Saturday, Kalua led mourners in Athi, Kitui County to plant 101 trees in honour of a village matriach who died aged 101.[Philip Muasya, Standard]

In a symbolic act of environmental conservation, a group of mourners at Kaivisi Village in Athi, Kitui County, led by environmentalist Isaac Kalua Green planted 101 trees to celebrate the life of a village matriarch who passed away aged 101.

The unique tree-planting ceremony to mark the life of Esther Kithumbi Kivuthi drew thousands of mourners on Saturday who gathered to honour a woman whose long life was described as a century of God's grace.

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