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Episode: Children plant bamboo to combat dire air pollution from Kenya’s biggest dumpsite
Description: A school right next to Kenya's largest dumpsite has started planting bamboo to improve air quality. Foul-smelling fumes from the waste have been affecting the students' health.
More than 100 bamboo trees dot the mini forest created around the Dandora Secondary School, located east of Kenya’s capital Nairobi next to the country’s largest dumpsite.
The dump was declared full 23 years ago, yet hundreds of trucks still drive in daily to heap more waste.
"The dumpsite produces gas in the morning and also in the afternoon. Seeing is becoming a problem in the morning. They produce mist. They produce fog whic...