Diana Kim - Wangari Maathai
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_wangari_maathai.htm: Go to the Web site. Read about Wangari. Then answer these questions:
1. Why did she start the Green Belt Movement? What was it supposed to do?
2. How hard was it for her to go to school? What job did she learn to do?
3. What government job was she finally given?
http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/2004/: Go to the Web site. Click on “Presentation Speech” on the right side. Read the speech and answer the following questions:
1. Why was Wangari Maathai chosen to receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
2. What did she say to the women she was with when she was told she had received the prize?
3. Ms. Maathai is the first African woman to receive this prize. She worked hard to help other women improve their lives. Yet she was often sent to prison, and her life was in danger. Why?
http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/2004/press.html: Go to the Web site. Click on Nobel lecture. Click on “Printed Version” or listen to the speech. You will see this text: My fellow Africans, as we embrace this recognition, let us use it to intensify our commitment to our people, to reduce conflicts and poverty and thereby improve their quality of life. Let us embrace democratic governance, protect human rights and protect our environment. I am confident that we shall rise to the occasion. I have always believed that solutions to most of our problems must come from us.” Read the rest of the speech. What do you think these words mean? What does she want other Africans to do?
http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/achievements.php: Go to the Web site and answer these questions:
1. How many trees have the African women planted?
2. What other countries are now doing the same thing? How will doing this improve their lives?
3. Why does she work so hard to promote democracy?
http://www.wangarimaathai.or.ke/” Go to the Web site. You will see quotations. Click on “More.” On the next page will be several quotations. Choose five. For each one, answer this question: What does Wangari say about peace that could be useful to other people and other countries?
1. Why did she start the Green Belt Movement? What was it supposed to do?
2. How hard was it for her to go to school? What job did she learn to do?
3. What government job was she finally given?
http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/2004/: Go to the Web site. Click on “Presentation Speech” on the right side. Read the speech and answer the following questions:
1. Why was Wangari Maathai chosen to receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
2. What did she say to the women she was with when she was told she had received the prize?
3. Ms. Maathai is the first African woman to receive this prize. She worked hard to help other women improve their lives. Yet she was often sent to prison, and her life was in danger. Why?
http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/2004/press.html: Go to the Web site. Click on Nobel lecture. Click on “Printed Version” or listen to the speech. You will see this text: My fellow Africans, as we embrace this recognition, let us use it to intensify our commitment to our people, to reduce conflicts and poverty and thereby improve their quality of life. Let us embrace democratic governance, protect human rights and protect our environment. I am confident that we shall rise to the occasion. I have always believed that solutions to most of our problems must come from us.” Read the rest of the speech. What do you think these words mean? What does she want other Africans to do?
http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/achievements.php: Go to the Web site and answer these questions:
1. How many trees have the African women planted?
2. What other countries are now doing the same thing? How will doing this improve their lives?
3. Why does she work so hard to promote democracy?
http://www.wangarimaathai.or.ke/” Go to the Web site. You will see quotations. Click on “More.” On the next page will be several quotations. Choose five. For each one, answer this question: What does Wangari say about peace that could be useful to other people and other countries?
posted by Marvine Stamatakis at 9:42 AM
1 Comments:
1) Many trees are cut down and have many problems. There are other problems such as soil runoff, water pollution, difficulty finding firewood, lack of animal nutrition, and many other problems that are bad for the environment.
2) She earned a biology degree from Mount St. Scholastic College in Kansas and a master’s degree at the University of Pittsburgh. She worked in a veterinary and did medicine research at the University if Nairobi. She also earned Ph.D. She became the head of the veterinary medicine faculty, and was the first woman at any department at the University of Nairobi. I think that she has the right to earn this Nobel Prize after all her countless efforts.
3) She was arrested numerous times by the government of Kenya. In December, 2002, Wangari Maathai was elected to parliament, as Mwai kibabi defeated Maathai’s long time political nemesis. Daniel arap Moi was the president of Kenya for 24years.
1) Maathai worked on ecologically viable social, economic and cultural development in Kenya and in Africa. She also works for human rights and women’s rights. She thinks globally and acts locally.
2) She told them that she had been given so much money that she couldn’t count it.
3) Maathai was trying to change the environment for democracy. The government doesn’t like her because she tries to work to change things.
These words mean that the government has to change for democracy because if they change for democracy, there will have no conflicts and disagreements. Also environment will improve and the people of Africa have to rethink what is best for them.
1) African care for 6.000 tree nurseries and over the years they have more than 30 million trees.
2) 15 African countries east and central Africa, and outside Africa is doing the same thing. It will harvest water, and this water will be used for household needs, food crops and tree nurseries. It will also improve the starvation of people.
3) She thinks that all problems have to come out from the people not only the government. When the government changes to democracy, people will become wealthier and have a better life.
“It is evident that many wars are fought over resources, which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better, fighting over them would not then occur.”
On receiving the news of being awarded the Nobel Prize, 2004
•If there are many resources, there will be no wars.
“As long as there is not trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will remain more important than service.”
A statement entitled fears that threaten our unity, 2003
•People have to believe that they will get fair amount of resources.
“I have invested 20 years of my life in this campaign for the environment and I’m still only scratching the surface. I am confident of winning. Nobody will build anything there as long as we live. We cannot dignify theft.”
Rededicating her-self to the fight to save Karura, 2001
• Wangari Maathai worked for campaign for the environment, but it is still not working. She knows that it is difficult to do but she doesn’t give up and keeps doing.
“In the world there is a new collective force of people mobilizing around the issue of peace but linking it to the need to protect the environment. But we must assert or collective vision and responsibility to shape that peace not only for our country but also for the whole of Africa.”
On the occasion of the Mini Beijing Conference Nairobi 1995
• She said that people need to protect the environment for peace, not only her country. She is caring about whole country.
“The women of Green Belt Movement have learnt about the causes and the symptoms of environmental degradation. They have begun to appreciate that they, rather than their government, ought to be custodians of the environment.”
Radcliff College, USA, 1994
The women of the Green Belt Movement are going to work on fixing the environmental degradation without help from the government because they know the cause of symptoms of environmental degradation.
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