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How One Man Planted a Million Trees (Video)

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21 Mar 2010 11 views
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How One Man Planted a Million Trees (Video)
Gashaw Tahir, an American citizen, traveled back to his birth country of Ethiopia to find the green hills that surrounded his home eroded and stripped bare from deforestation. So he decided to do something extraordinary: Plant one million trees for Ethiopia

Gashaw Tahir, an American citizen, traveled back to his birth country of Ethiopia to find the green hills that surrounded his home eroded and stripped bare from deforestation. So he decided to do something extraordinary: Plant one million trees.

He hired 450 young people and changed the ecology of his country.

WATCH the video below…

 

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