Planted by Benmak Wandera & family
After post-doctoral malaria research in Liverpool Paul volunteered, with Jenna Soame, to join Ace-Africa in Bungoma to help their W.H.O. WASH programme – and then stayed longer. He personally seed-funded a sugar plantation, set up a school chicken farm and worked with abandoned street kids, trying to socialise them so they might attend school (as well as playing football with the local team of course!)
Olea Welwitschii, the Elgon teak, is a species of tree in the family Oleaceae. It ranges across parts of subsaharan Africa, from Cameroon in the west to Ethiopia and Kenya in the east, and south to Angola, Zambia, and Mozambique. It is a forest species, ranging from lowland tropical rainforests to evergreen montane forests. Olea Welwitschii is evergreen, and can grow up to 35 meters in height. It is used locally and commercially for timber. Olea Welwitschii is sometimes classified as a subspecies of Olea Capensis. The species is named after botanist Friedrich Welwitsch.