The Green Belt Movement is a popular movement that was formed as an indigenous grassroot environmental Campaign on World Environment Day in 1977. Its founder, Wangari Mathai, a women’s rights and evironment campaigner is also the Nobel Peace Prize winner for 2004 as well as being on UNEP’s Global 500 Roll of Honor for Environmental Achievement. Since its beginnings, the movement has worked with more than one million children in 3,000 schools to plant trees on school compounds, gotten more than 50,000 households and small-scale farmers to plant trees on their farms, and produced numerous booklets and films on reforestation issues. In the last ten years, more than seven million trees are recorded as having been planted and survived. More than 50,000 Kenyan women have been involved in the campaign.
Glossary:
the green belt movement – ruch zielonego pasa
movement – ruch
indigenous – miejscowy, lokalny
grassroot – oddolny, obywatelski
founder - założyciel
environmental – środowiskowy
campaign - kampania
achievement – osiągnięcie
household – rodzina / domownicy
booklet – broszura
reforestation – ponowne zalesienie
issue – kwestia
plant - sadzić
survive – przeżyć
involved – biorących udział
źródło: www.unep.org
opracowała: Justyna Stawarska |
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