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FUTURESAVER OF THE WEEK ENDING 11-13-2004

Wangari Maathai is the author of The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience. She also won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, the 1991 Goldman Environmental Prize, the 1991 Africa Prize and is the first woman in East Africa to earn a Ph. D. (biology). She was Chairwoman of the National Council of Women of Kenya from 1981 to 1987. She introduced the idea of planting trees through citizen foresters and created the organization called Green Belt Movement which has assisted women in planting more than 30 million trees on their farms, schools and church compounds in Kenya and all over East Africa. She was vilified, attacked and imprisoned by the gross patriarchal government of Daniel arap Moi which was riddled with corruption. Wangari is now a member of Parliament and the Assistant Secretary for Environment, Wildlife and Natural Resources in the new Kibaki government. For helping to solve East African environmental problems that corrupt and narrowminded men have failed to solve, Wangari Maathai has been named Futuresaver of the Week. Click the links below for more information.

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Wangari (Wangari Home)
Wangari (About Women's History)
Wangari (Nobel Peace Prize)