Who is Wangari Maathai
Wangarĩ Muta Maathai (; 1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan social, environmental and a political activist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. As a beneficiary of the Kennedy Airlift, she studied in the United States, earning a bachelor's degree from Mount St. Scholastica and a master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She went on to become the first woman in East and Central Africa to become a Doctor of Philosophy, receiving her PhD from the University of Nairobi in Kenya.In 1977, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. In 1984, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "converting the Kenyan ecologica...
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- It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
- You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
- In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
- In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
- African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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Climateopp_pod: the green belt movement also empowers women by training them in sustainable farming techniques and supporting their participation in decision-making processes at all levels. let's celebrate the legacy of wangari maathai...Ori735orimba: i don't really know why i care so much. i just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and i have got to do something about it. i think that is what i would call the god in me.,wangari maathai,me, problem, know ,
Danielnjeru007: nobel prize winners: kenya has produced two nobel prize winners: wangari maathai, who won the nobel peace prize in 2004 for her environmental and social justice work, and barack obama, who won the nobel peace prize in 2009 for his efforts to strengthen international diplomacy.
Chrisngaruthi: nyeri county is versatile. it gave us prof. wangarĩ muta maathai, mwai wa kibaki, dedan kimathi, general mathenge, waruhiu itote and of late gachagua, fair to say things have gone downhill.
Quantforensic: until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. you're just talking ~ prof wangari maathai
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