Plant Your Age Day 2026
Date: 14 September 2026 Location: Green Africa Group Headquarters, Karen Green Complex Status: Planted. Survival results and photos to follow. This year’s legacy. Plant Your Age Day 2026 activated the Plant Your Age platform and inaugurated the first Living Legacy Report Day, the annual 14 September tradition where the movement reports on what grew, not
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The Living Legacy Garden
Date: 14 September 2019 Location: Uhuru Park, Nairobi Status: trees verified On 14 September 2019, 47 schoolchildren planted the Living Legacy Garden at Uhuru Park: 50 trees in total, 47 for Kenya’s 47 counties, one for Kenya itself, one for the international community, and one for Green Africa Foundation. The children planted the trees themselves
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80 Trees for a President
Date: 30 April 2012 Location: Kitui Status: Completed. Presidential endorsement secured. On 30 April 2012, at Kitui, President Mwai Kibaki planted the tree that completed a personal collection of 80, one for each year of his life, and formally endorsed Plant Your Age for global adoption on the same day. Inside the movement, 2012 is
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Green Corner. KICC
Date: 2011, planted in the same period as the Kabete Green Corner Location: Kenyatta International Convention Centre, Nairobi Status: Still standing today A second Wangari Maathai Green Corner was planted at KICC around the same time as Kabete. Both original Green Corners, Kabete and KICC, still stand today. Visitors to either site can be walked
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71 for Wangari
Date: 26 September 2011 Location: Nationwide tribute Status: Foundational. This is where the movement starts. On 26 September 2011, one day after Professor Wangari Maathai’s death, Dr. Isaac Kalua Green called on Kenya and the world to honour each year of her life by planting and growing 71 trees. This was the first time
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The First Green Corner
Date: October 2011 Location: University of Nairobi, Kabete Campus Status: Still standing today The first Wangari Maathai Green Corner was planted at the University of Nairobi’s Kabete Campus in October 2011, under the leadership of William Ruto, then Minister for Agriculture. It turned the 71 for Wangari tribute into physical ground, not just a public
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