Mourning families who were left with little to nothing to bury their loved ones from the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash united to plant an Olive tree from soil at the crash site.
Families were told it could take six months to properly identify remains of the 149 passengers and eight crew lost.
Citizens of 35 countries were lost on March 10 when the flight, just six minutes into the blue skies near the capital, plunged to the ground, killing all 157 aboard.
Kenya, Canada and Ethiopia suffered the biggest losses of life and their representatives and others joined about 100 relatives and friends at the memorial ceremony.
“This adventure helped shape Angela’s love of the wild, the planet, and the sea,” said one of the mourners of a U.N. Environment delegate who was on the Nairobi-bound flight.