Kanzinwa Primary School, Kitui County, was recognized as the winner of Phase V of KenGen Foundation’s flagship environmental conservation programme the Schools’ Green Initiative Challenge, a school based afforestation competition located in the semi-arid counties of Embu, Machakos and Kitui on 17 May.

Kanzinwa Primary beat 99 other competing schools in the two year competition that saw them record the highest survival rates of indigenous tree seedlings provided by project partner Better Globe Forestry.

The second runner up was Kaseve Primary School, Machakos County, with Kamathitu Secondary School in position three.

During the Award Ceremony, the project partners KenGen Kenya and Better Globe also announced the launch of GIC Phase VII, which brings on board 100 schools from Kitui, Machakos and Embu Counties. This addition brings to 700 the number of schools participating in the project since its launch in 2015.

Implemented by Kengen Foundation, KenGen Kenya and Better Globe Forestry, GIC is a 10 year program that targets to enroll 1,000 schools and greening a total of 460 acres with 324,300 tree seedlings as well as 113,956 fruit seedlings