An 18-year-old Kenyan amateur footballer wants Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar to put down the ball for a moment and pick up a shovel to combat deforestation
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When Lesein Mutunkei scores a goal, he plants 11 trees -- one to represent each player on his team. He's tackling the nation's daily loss of an estimated 50 football pitches worth of forest area. "Football is a universal game and climate change is a universal problem," Mutunkei said."[It] has the power to connect, engage, educate and inspire my generation to create a safer and greener future.
This teenaged football player is planting trees every time he scores a goal 04:45Mutunkei remembers that Maathai often told a story about a hummingbird trying to put out a forest fire while all of the other animals fled in fear. For him, its lesson is that"however small you think it may be of a difference, it does make a change."That's where the idea to combine football and environmentalism originated. He started by planting one sapling for every goal.
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