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I received this email from my friend Samuel today. I thought I would pass it on.

I want to share this with you. Thanks to Jonas who brought this information together, and Nadia Ramming who translated it.
Really readable… SAMUEL

Kenyan environmentalist Prof. Wangari Maathai receives Nobel Peace Prize

“When we plant trees, we plant seeds of peace and seeds of hope,” says the 64-year-old biologist and today’s vice minister for environment in Kenya, who in the seventies became known as “Mama Mici” - Mother of the trees. At this time she founded the “Green Belt Movement” to fight the chopping down of Kenya’s woods. Through this movement, already more than 25 million trees have been planted up to now in countless countries of Africa.

Prof. Wangari Maathai, who also supports Human Rights, women�s liberation, non-violence and democracy, will receive the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 2004 as the first African woman. The Nobel committee explained the decision with her commitment for “lasting environmental development as well as for democracy and peace,” it says in the statement of the chairman of the Nobel committee, Mj’s.
Links:
The Green Belt Movement
Official website of Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai�s book at Amazon.com
Nobel Prize website

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