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Nov 6, 2018
Media: oil on heavy fabriano paper
Size: 30x18 in
I am learning about amazing people this month. This "matron" saint of sustainability won a Nobel Peace Prize (before she died in in 2011) for her work planting millions of trees, teaching 30,000 women forestry and food production....addressing the lack of food, fuel, shelter and employment in her native Kenya and then all over Africa. She started an organization, 'The Greenbelt Movement' whose mission is to mobilize communities to self-determination,justice, equity, reduction of poverty and environmental conservation, using trees as the entry point. In 1960, through a program funded by then Senator John F. Kennedy, she was one of 300 Kenyans selected to study in the United States.(Incidentally, Barack Obama's father came to America to study under this same program!) It was during her time in the U.S. that she learned that ordinary men and women could speak up, protest, have a voice in their country's affairs. When she returned to Kenya she began addressing poverty, human rights, and environmental sustainablity. During the course of her life, she was imprisoned and her husband divorced her (for "being educated and therefore too difficult to control"), but she kept "putting one foot in front of the other". She was surprised when the Norwegian Nobel Commitee noticed her work for her "unique forms of action drawing attention to political oppression, fighting for democratic rights, and encouraging women to better their situations". I am learning about amazing people this month. This "matron" saint of sustainability won a Nobel Peace Prize (before she died in in 2011) for her work planting millions of trees, teaching 30,000 women forestry and food production....addressing the lack of food, fuel, shelter and employment in her native Kenya and then all over Africa. She started an organization, 'The Greenbelt Movement' whose mission is to mobilize communities to self-determination,justice, equity, reduction of poverty and environmental conservation, using trees as the entry point. In 1960, through a program funded by then Senator John F. Kennedy, she was one of 300 Kenyans selected to study in the United States.(Incidentally, Barack Obama's father came to America to study under this same program!) It was during her time in the U.S. that she learned that ordinary men and women could speak up, protest, have a voice in their country's affairs. When she returned to Kenya she began addressing poverty, human rights, and environmental sustainablity. During the course of her life, she was imprisoned and her husband divorced her (for "being educated and therefore too difficult to control"), but she kept "putting one foot in front of the other". She was surprised when the Norwegian Nobel Commitee noticed her work for her "unique forms of action drawing attention to political oppression, fighting for democratic rights, and encouraging women to better their situations". |
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