Wangari Maathai as an Inspiring Founder of the Green Belt Movementby | 27-01-2013 07:33 |
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 Hi Greeners? Do you know who Wangari Maathai is. The full name is Wangari Muta Maathai who was born in Nyeri, Kenya in 1940. She is an inspiring woman who was engaging communities to improvement of their livelihoods and a greener, cleaner world. In addition, She is one of the truly mother of environment has been preserved our Mother Earth with care...................................... Because her accomplishments in treating and nurturing environment, she was awarded Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 2004. Not only that above, but also she has other wonderful achievements in outside of the field of environment, for instance UN Messenger of Peace, the Director of Kenya Red Cross, and so forth................................. She is an environmentalist help encourange people of being respectful people to care to democracy, human rights, and environmental conservation, and served on the board of many organisations. Those were some interests of herself could improve their multidimentional constributions to societie......................................... The most outstanding organization built by Prof. Wangari Maathai is GBM (Green Belt Movement). The Green Belt Movement gets some supports under the guidance of the National Council of Women of Kenya (NCWK). So here, it can be concluded that mother of organization is Prof. Wangari Maathai........................................ This organization focuses on restoring and protecting the environment to achieve culture of peace. It is an unique environemental organisation that concerns in the realm of environment to build peace. It is incredibly impressed people to involve theirselves of defining the role of the environment in human life. This body is to engage specially women as a form of emancipation............................. In order to attain the vision and mission of GBM, GBM harbour some values explaining its strategies to embody sustainable environment and sustainable development. They includes love for environment conservation, self and community empowerment , volunteerism, accountability, transparency and honesty. The first value is love for environment conservation, it is a golden breakthrough where it allows an endeavours to attain that value, So, to fill it out, it is needed some role of people to get together to look for the best way in creating the sustainability of environment................................ In fact, she is positively the leader inspiring young people to dare to care towards the mutual relations among human being and environment. Yet, youth are consciously interested to imitate their achievement and good traits she has. Hopefully, by describing who Wangari Maathai is, it helps you in ascertaining the real action must be done to conserve your environment through your way that you have................................... Written by Achmad Solikhin, Indonesian Greenaction Forum- www.i-gaf.org |
