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Headline : They study next to one of Africas largest trash dumps. Theyre planting bamboo to try to cope

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Students at a school next to Kenya's largest dumpsite are on a mission to try to purify the air with bamboo

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Armed with gardening hoes while others cradled bamboo seedlings, students gathered outside their school in Kenya's capital. They hoped the fully grown bamboo would help to filter filthy air from one of Africa's largest trash dumps next door.

More than 100 bamboo plantings dot the ground around Dandora secondary school, which shares a name with the dumpsite that was declared full 23 years ago. Hundreds of trucks still drive in daily to dump more trash.

Allan Sila, 17, said sitting in his classroom is like studying in a smelly latrine.

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