Hi friends!
In these days we have also worked in teams of four, using Google Docs, to continue experimenting its advantages. Each team have collected information about the Nobel Prize Winners and later, each of us, have chosen one of these Winners to write an interesting article. My article is going to be about Wangari Maathai and I hope that it'll be interesting for you.
There aren't so many women around the world doing whatever they can to sustainable development, democracy and peace and we have to express our gratitude for the work they have done. One of these women is Wangari Maathai, who received The Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.
Wangari Muta Maathai was an environmental, political and human rights activis and due to her work on this, she won lots of prizes during her years of maximun knowledge. She was born in Nyeri, a rural area of Kenya (Africa) in 1940 and she was educated in the United States at Mount St. Scholastica and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the University of Nairobi in Kenya. Maathai was the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree and to became
chair of the Department of Veterinary Anatomy and an associate professor.
In the 1970s, she founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. She have written a book about this organization, and in that book, Maathai tells the story of how the organisation
grew from one woman’s idea to a network of hundreds of thousands of men
and women who have planted tens of millions of trees throughout Kenya, and what was the principal key to run the Green Belt Movement.
Besides, together with the members of the organization, she have done a documentary film, called "Taking Root", which is a compelling documentary narrative about the first environmentalist
and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and it shows all the work that Maathai have done to defend human rights and promote democracy. If yo are interested on seen it, here you have a short video about the documentary film that maiby it can exited you:
In my opinion, Maathai has been an important woman as regards all her work to sustainable development, democracy and peace and she has done lots of interesting things in favour of the environment and also human and, especially, women's rights.
