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The Kenyan government gives out a hundred million saplings and calls a public holiday to get everyone planting trees.

Taking part our correspondent in Nairobi and Soy.

I love fruit trees and I've tried to plant quite a variety of them at my home.

Apart from having tree cover, you also get to eat from that tree. Also in the happy pod, Geraldine who walked across Europe and then met the Pope.

I had kidnappers, as I call it, kidnapped with kindness.

People were literally taking me in.

A possible cure for two rare blood disorders, a gene therapy drug approved for the first time.

The patients on the trials are absolutely thrilled because in more than 90% they no longer

had pain crisis or needed transfusions.

And...

I was in a state of disbelief, I think, that it actually happened.

Turned to the umpire, looked at him and he just shook his head, looked at me and walked up and went,

that's unbelievable.

An extraordinary cricket over in Australia.

Hello, I'm Harry Bly, and this is our weekly collection of positive and uplifting news stories,

the HappyPOD from the BBC World Service. Let's begin with trees and lots of them.

Kenya wants to grow 15 billion trees by 2033 and this week they took the first step with the government calling a public

holiday to allow Kenyans to plant tens of millions of saplings.

Our Our senior Africa correspondent, Anne Soy, spoke to me from her home just outside Nairobi about the special tree planting holiday.

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