Wangari Muta Maathai

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 07:33:58 GMT
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Who is Wangari Maathai??
She was born in year 1940. She was dead on year 2011. She is a environmental and human rights activist. She is the first Black Woman to Win the Noble Peace Prize For being a environmental activist.

Born On Year 1940. Dead On Year 2011. Studied in University of Nairobi. She was the first Black Women to win Noble Peace Prize laureate. She won for Being a environmental activist

Background Of Her

Born on April 1, 1940, in Nyeri, Kenya, environmental activist Wangari Maathai grew up in a small village. Her father supported the family working as a tenant farmer. At this time, Kenya was still a British colony. Her family was of the Kikuyu ethnic group, the most populous ethnic group in Kenya, and had lived in the area for several generations. Around 1943, Maathai's family relocated to a white-owned farm in the Rift Valley, near the town of Nakuru, where her father had found work.

Lifesyle Of Wangari Maathai
Wangari Muta Maathai was a Kenyan environmental and Human right activist. In the 1970s, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and womens rights. In 2004, she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace. Maathai was an elected member of Parliament and served as assistant minister for Environment and Natural Resources in the government of President Mwai Kibaki between January 2003 and November 2005. She passed away in 2011. It is the little things citizens do that will make a difference. My little thing is planting a tree. By Wangari Maathai The Green Belt movement has planted over 51 million trees in Kenya. This Season of Creation manual is dedicated to her memory. May her inspiration live on in us

Achievements of Her
Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She was also the first female scholar from East and Central Africa to take a doctorate, and the first female professor ever in her home country of Kenya. Maathai played an active part in the struggle for democracy in Kenya and belonged to the opposition to Daniel Arap Moi's regime.Wangari Maathai has been listed as a noteworthy Environmentalist, consultant by Marquis Who's Who.

Thought by her
Because we become bound by other peoples thoughts because we are not sure about our self.