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NobelPeace Price for environmentalist

NOBEL PEACE PRICE 2004 TO ENVIRONMENTALIST!

The Kenyan professor Wangari Maathai (Kenya, 1940) gets this years’ Nobel Peace Price
Her Greenbeltmovement has been active for thirty years. Over 30,000 women planted over 25 million trees in farms, public lands and forests. All group members were trained in methods of organic farming, intensive land management and values of indigenous food crops for better health they learn skills on silviculture, post-harvest food processing, bee keeping and other income generating activities. In addition GBM groups receive financial compensation for every tree seedling that survives on public land. This income is a greatly appreciated incentive and is often utilized to augment the meagre family incomes.
The women also become empowered to mobilize the public, local government officials and church leaders, to participate in activities such as constructing river dams, building terraces on farms, transporting tree seedlings and planting them. An empowered community not only prevents environmental destruction, but also restores what has been destroyed.

With this the Nobel Price committee gives the world two important signals:
ENVIRONMENTAL WORK IS IMPORTANT FOR PEACE IN THE WORLD
and
WOMEN ARE IMPORTANT FOR PEACE IN THE WORLD
Website:
http://www.greenbeltmovement.org

"for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace"

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