I was blown away by the documentary film "Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai". It follows Wangari from her childhood in rural Kenya to her founding of the Green Belt Movement and going on to win the Nobel Peace Prize. This amazing woman, Wangari Maathai, is so inspiring I don't even know where to begin!
Wow, right?!"Planting trees for fuel, shade, and food is not something that anyone would imagine as the first step toward winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet with that simple act Wangari Maathai, a woman born in rural Kenya, started down the path that reclaimed her country’s land from 100 years of deforestation, provided new sources of food and income to rural communities, gave previously impoverished and powerless women a vital political role in their country, and ultimately helped to bring down Kenya's twenty-four-year dictatorship."
Surely if this one woman can manage to initiate these amazing things in Kenya, we can all stop blindly consuming for a minute and do something worthwhile too. She gives me hope.
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