Learning Lessons From A Fig Tree
WANGARI MAATHAI’S LIFE TESTAMENT TO EMPOWERING WOMEN TOWARD SELF-SUFFICIENCY
Posted: October 9, 2011 at 5:40 a.m.
“A great river always begins somewhere.” — Wangari Maathai In a small village in British Kenya, inside a dung and mudwalled house with no electricity or running water, and two weeks into the “season of long rains,” a midwife helped Wangari Muta enter this world.
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Opinion, Pages 15 on 10/09/2011
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Thank you, Fran, for telling us more about this great woman.
Posted by: Coralie
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