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Various of Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Wangari Maathai planting a tree2. Maathai standing under sign reading : Green Belt Movement3. Wide of fence of Green Belt Movement4. Close up of sign reading: Green Belt Movement5. Wide of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Various of Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Wangari Maathai planting a tree\u003cbr/\u003e2. Maathai standing under sign reading : Green Belt Movement\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of fence of Green Belt Movement\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close up of sign reading: Green Belt Movement\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of Green Belt Movement gardens\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close up of woman carrying barrel of water on her head\u003cbr/\u003e7. People working in gardens\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Wangari Maathai, founder of Green Belt Movement: \u003cbr/\u003e\"As you and I speak, it''s raining in this country and some people are very happy, some people I am sure are praising the Lord for giving them rain, but I am almost crying because I know that a lot of that water is rushing down the stream towards the Indian Ocean and other lakes and seas and it is carrying with it the top soil. So instead of harvesting this beautiful water that the good God has given us, we are not only losing the water, we are losing the soil. Now I wish there was something I could do - almost a miracle - yet, those who don''t understand that can go to bed and sleep and say what a wonderful God, we have rain. But for me I am miserable because I know what is happening to that water and to that soil, tomorrow more will starve.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Various of people working in gardens\u003cbr/\u003e10. Pan down from trees to small saplings growing in garden\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Wangari Maathai, founder of Green Belt Movement: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I don''t hear the same grammar for harvest this rain water, build trenches, dig holes make terraces, protect the land, make sure that none of this wonderful water that has finally come leaves us and drifts into the oceans and lakes. I don''t hear that. But when it was dry, and people were starving, people were crying all over the place (saying) bring food, go to the dying and starving. But now you don''t hear (people say you should) do everything you can to harvest this rain water and prevent soil erosion because this is what prevents what we are seeing yesterday (people starving).\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various of bee hives\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) ++ No Name Available++\u003cbr/\u003e\"If you keep these bee hives, automatically the bees will come together with the bees and everything. So our work is just only to keep the bee hives and then the bees will come.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Various of bee hives\u003cbr/\u003e15. Close up of bees going into hive\u003cbr/\u003e16. Exterior of house\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Wangari Maathai, founder of Green Belt Movement:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Africans continue to be poor because they lack the knowledge which they can get through education and they lack the skills, so that they can use their resources and convert that into the wealth. So they challenge to me is, are we - especially those of us who are in power now - willing, because we are able, but are we willing to invest in our people. Are we willing to provide the kind of governance that invests in people. For too long African leadership has thought about itself. African leadership has tended to replace the colonial, exploitative and oppressive system.\" \u003cbr/\u003e18. Various of Maathai walking through garden\u003cbr/\u003e19. Close up of Maathai planting saplings \u003cbr/\u003e20. Maathai walking through garden\u003cbr/\u003eWangari Maathai is most well known for being the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 - yet her courageous and tireless work fighting for the marginalised people in Africa began long before her international fame. \u003cbr/\u003eIn 2004 Wangari Maathai was awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Nobel committee said the prize was in recognition \"for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace\".\u003cbr/\u003eBefore the honour she was little known to the outside world, but in Kenya she was already famous for her work fighting discrimination in Africa, especially against women.\u003cbr/\u003eA pioneering academic, Maathai was the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree - studying in America, Germany and Kenya.\u003cbr/\u003eHer role as an environmental campaigner began in 1976 after she began planting trees in her backyard, in an attempt to combat the devastating effects of deforestation and soil erosions. \u003cbr/\u003eThis inspired her to form an organisation, run predominately by woman, known as the Green Belt Movement (GBM) - which involved women''s groups planting trees to conserve the environment and empower themselves by improving their quality of life.\u003cbr/\u003eHer campaign has since inspired women to plant more than 30 million trees across Kenya.\u003cbr/\u003eThe model of the GBM has also spawned similar initiatives in other African countries.\u003cbr/\u003eYet she believes that there is more work still to be done.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"As you and I speak, it''s raining in this country and some people are very happy, some people I am sure are praising the Lord for giving them rain, but I am almost crying because I know that a lot of that water is rushing down the stream towards the Indian Ocean and other lakes and seas and it is carrying with it the top soil. So instead of harvesting this beautiful water that the good God has given us, we are not only losing the water, we are losing the soil. Now I wish there was something I could do - almost a miracle - yet, those who don''t understand that can go to bed and sleep and say what a wonderful God, we have rain. But for me I am miserable because I know what is happening to that water and to that soil, tomorrow more will starve.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Professor Wangari Maathai, founder of Green Belt Movement\u003cbr/\u003eIn parts of Kenya it hasn''t rained for over a year. \u003cbr/\u003eThe effects of the prolonged drought in the Horn of Africa means 11.5 million people need food aid.\u003cbr/\u003eMaathai says that Kenyans and Africans need to take responsibility for their own future, and manage their land more effectively so that food shortages are prevented. \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"I don''t hear the same grammar for harvest this rain water, build trenches, dig holes make terraces, protect the land, make sure that none of this wonderful water that has finally come leaves us and drifts into the oceans and lakes. I don''t hear that. But when it was dry, and people were starving, people were crying all over the place (saying) bring food, go to the dying and starving. But now you don''t hear (people say you should) do everything you can to harvest this rain water and prevent soil erosion because this is what prevents what we are seeing yesterday (people starving).\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Professor Wangari Maathai, founder of Green Belt Movement\u003cbr/\u003eThe Green Belt Movement aims to empower Kenyans by teaching them to become self -sufficient. \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English) ++No Name Available++\u003cbr/\u003e\"If you keep these bee hives, automatically the bees will come together with the bees and everything. So our work is just only to keep the bee hives and then the bees will come.\"\u003cbr/\u003eMaathai''s talent for inspiring people, prompted her to stand for parliament so she could represent them at a national level. \u003cbr/\u003eIn 2002, after several attempts, she was elected an MP with an overwhelming 98 per cent of the votes.\u003cbr/\u003eShe now represents the Tetu constituency, Nyeri district in central Kenya (her home region). \u003cbr/\u003eIn January 2003, President Mwai Kibaki appointed her Assistant Minister for Environment and Natural Resources in Kenya''s ninth parliament, a position she currently holds.\u003cbr/\u003eMaathai hopes to use her position in government to help change the face of African leadership and really make a difference to her people. \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"Africans continue to be poor because they lack the knowledge which they can get through education and they lack the skills, so that they can use their resources and convert that into the wealth. 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