On 30th and 31st of October 2021, Kenya’s most prolific and widely spoken about freedom icon, Dedan Kimathi’s birthday was marked with both pomp and color and in unique style! The well dated day that had rolled into 31st October will forever remain in the mind eyes, hearts and in the souls of many as we marked 101 years since the hero was born. As Dedan Kimathi foundation swung into action to practice what we know and understand most, tree planting, therefore as a matter of fact more than 25,000 tree seedlings were planted at Sasumwa water catchment area.
Tree-planting exercise was not only a land-mark in marking the iconic freedom hero’s birthday but also as a central remembrance of how forests played a key role in making our country free from imperialism grips.
Kenya Forest Services (KFS)
The day, thus 30th of October wasn’t an ordinary day as any other, Kenya’s Chief conservator of Forests (KFS) was amongst the key guests that made the day colorful and a hard one to forget over the generations to come. A day later his deputy the Senior Deputy Conservator of Forests joined us in the mass tree planting exercise. The presence of both officials reflected the actual face of KFS and the entire love of our national government in preserving our natural environments.
Ecoplanet Group
Ecoplanet Group too wasn’t left behind as a new world in part of Nyandarua was re-born with natural beauty of making it green. The group donated 200 seedlings of unique types in their bid to embrace the occasion as key stakeholders and potential partners in this natural call of environmental conservation world-wide. Our guests spread all over and we did appreciate this participatory exercise and applauded the strong unity that engulfed the atmosphere in those two successful days.
Equity Bank Kenya Ltd
Equity Bank, one of Kenya’s fast growing financial institution was adequately represented where they donated 10,000 seedlings of indigenous trees. This must have marked the occasion as one of the most historical exercise over the years of tree planting practice at DKF. Indigenous trees are almost facing extinction due to human kind greed on illegal logging, deforestation and other unwanted injustices inflicted to our trees and moreover our natural forests. By donating 10,000 indigenous seedlings, Equity Bank stood out as one of the major beacons of the colorful occasion that marked Kenya’s freedom icon Dedan Kimathi’s birthday worthwhile in the hearts of other freedom heroes and heroines and their immediate families respectively. May our Lord of mercy, unity and love bless Equity Bank’s entire management and shed more shed lighter onto their daily businesses in financing and empowering our people, across the board.
Besides Equity Bank’s participation in our tree-planting exercise, other volunteers emerged and joined hands lend their hands in tree-planting. DKF was much grateful as thus, many lend their hands in tree-planting. DKF was much grateful as thus, many hundreds of trees raging to thousands and plus, were planted in two days of celebrations.
PARTNERS
Other key and central partners participations in this exercise and just to mention a few the National government was largely represented in the occasion.
The following are key partners bodies that played parts in the tree- planting donation of seedling and other relevant supports. When the government bodies come to your county that shows great love, commitments and total devotion to the given cause.
Water services and regulation board, this state corporation donated 2500 seedlings and that act alone was highly appreciated.
KEFRU\ENSDA equally donated 1000 seedlings and indeed boosted this auspicious and colorful day. The celebration was obviously felt across the globe by many heroes. Ewaso Nyero Southern Dev elopement Authorty this state firm donated 1500 bamboos. Bamboos though pout of tress, but in the heart of freedom fighters centrally symbolize the true the true struggle MauMau fighters endured in the forest.
