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Wangari Maathai: Did you know?

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by Romy

Did you know...


Wangari Maathai (1940-2011) founded the Green Belt Movement (greenbeltmovement.org), a national movement in Kenya to replenish the land and to empower communities through planting trees.


She was the first woman to graduate with a doctorate degree in East and Central Africa and the first woman to chair the Department of Veterinary Anatomy (1976) & to be an associate professor (1977) at the University of Nairobi.


Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for sustainable development, democracy and peace.


“We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!”


(source: greenbeltmovement.org)

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