Environmental Activist Wangari Maathai

Description:

Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai started the Green Belt Movement, which educated women in villages in Kenya and paid them for every tree they planted. The program helped plant millions of trees and brought money to the villages.

subjects: Women conservationists,  Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya),  Juvenile literature,  Tree planters (Persons),  Biography,  Tree planting,  Kenya, juvenile literature,  Women, biography,  Women, biography, juvenile literature,  Kenya,  Scientists, juvenile literature,  Women scientists

People: Wangari Maathai

Places: Kenya