Ms Kagiri said Prof Maathai would facilitate women groups within her constituency to prepare tree nursery beds for ... At Ihithe Village, home to the late Prof Wangari, Peter Muta Nderitu, a ...

"However, it was Wangari Maathai, this amazing Kenyan woman, who had planted millions of trees in her community to spread awareness about what tree planting can do, and how it can develop a ...

ABOVE: Wangari Maathai talks through her ground-breaking Green Belt Movement, which has planted tens of millions of trees across Africa since its inception in 1977. ABOVE: Wangari Maathai sends a ...

Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ... “Nobody would have bothered me if all I did was to encourage women to plant trees.” Maathai said. In her Nobel ...

“Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You are just talking” — Wangari Maathai (late Kenyan political activist) Trees have ...

and become mature trees. Now life is so much better for the people who live here! This animated film explores the life and achievements of Wangari Maathai, an environmental activist from Kenya who ...

Professor Wangari Maathai contributed over many decades to ... women and their families in planting more than 40 million trees across Kenya to protect the environment and promote sustainable ...

In 2004, Kenyan Wangari Maathai became the first African woman ... She focused on the planting of trees, conservation, and women's rights but repeatedly clashed with the government while trying ...

The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) launched the first Wangari Maathai Award in 2012 to honour the memory of Kenyan Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, who championed forests around the ...

This old fig tree was spared the axe after a campaign to save it Elizabeth Wathuti, from the Green Generation Initiative and Wangari Maathai Foundation, who earlier this month was among those ...