[E-rundbrief] Info 1046 - Wangari Maathai (Kenia) died

[Matthias Reichl]

E-Rundbrief - Info 1046 - The Rightlivelihood Award (S): Wangari 
Maathai passes away. The Green Belt Movement (Kenia): Wangari Muta 
Maathai (1940-2011).

Bad Ischl, 26.9.2011

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Wangari Maathai passes away

The Rightlivelihood Award

Press release 26 September 2011

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Right Livelihood Award Laureate Wangari 
Maathai (from Kenia) passed away at the Nairobi Hospital on 26 
September 2011, according to her family. Prof. Maathai had long been 
struggling with cancer.

Wangari Muta Maathai was born on 1 April 1940 in Kenia. She started 
the Green Belt Movement in 1977, working with women to improve their 
livelihoods by increasing their access to resources like firewood for 
cooking and clean water. She became a great advocate for better 
management of natural resources and for sustainability, equity, and 
justice, a work that put her at considerable risk during the 
authoritarian rule of President Moi.

In 1984, she received the Right Livelihood Award "for converting the 
Kenyan ecological debate into mass action for reforestation" ( 
http://www.rightlivelihood.org/maathai.html ). Twenty years later, in 
2004, she received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Right Livelihood Award Executive Director Ole von Uexkull said: "The 
Right Livelihood Award Family has lost one of its most prominent 
members. Wangari Maathai was an inspiration to the whole world as well 
as to her co-Laureates. She always used the power of her commitment 
and her longstanding experience to strengthen others. Our thoughts are 
with her family. Wangari will live on in the memories of her 
colleagues ... and in the millions of trees she helped plant in Kenya."

Wangari Maathai's organisation, the Green Belt Movement, wrote: 
"Professor Maathai’s departure is untimely and a very great loss to 
all who knew her - as a mother, relative, co-worker, colleague, role 
model, and heroine; or who admired her determination to make the world 
a more peaceful, healthier, and better place."


The Right Livelihood Award Foundation
PO Box 15072, 104 65 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 (0) 8 702 03 40 or 702 03 39; Fax: +46 (0)8 702 03 38
info at rightlivelihood.org
www.rightlivelihood.org

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Wangari Muta Maathai (1940-2011)

The Green Belt Movement

It is with great sadness that the family of Professor Wangari Maathai 
announces her passing away on 25th September, 2011, at the Nairobi 
Hospital, after a prolonged and bravely borne struggle with cancer. 
Her loved ones were with her at the time.

Professor Maathai’s departure is untimely and a very great loss to all 
who knew her—as a mother, relative, co-worker, colleague, role model, 
and heroine; or who admired her determination to make the world a more 
peaceful, healthier, and better place.

Prof. Wangari Muta Maathai started the Green Belt Movement in 1977, 
working with women to improve their livelihoods by increasing their 
access to resources like firewood for cooking and clean water. She 
became a great advocate for better management of natural resources and 
for sustainability, equity, and justice. A synopsis of her life and 
work can be read here: http://greenbeltmovement.org/w.php?id=134

Prof. Maathai leaves her three children—Waweru, Wanjira, and Muta—and 
a granddaughter, Ruth Wangari. They are truly very grateful for all 
the prayers and support they have received.

Further information on how Prof’s life will be celebrated, where to 
share memories and condolences, and how to join us to build her legacy 
for generations to come will be provided shortly.

http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/

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Books (in English):

Wangari Maathai: Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing 
Ourselves and the World
Doubleday Image, 2010

Wangari Maathai: The Challenge for Africa
  Vintage/Anchor, 2010

Wangari Maathai: Unbowed: A Memoir
Alfred A. Knopf, 2006

Bücher in Deutsch:

Wangari Maathai: Afrika, mein Leben
DuMont Buchverlag
10,30 EUR

Wangari Maathai : Die Grüngürtel Bewegung
Ennsthaler Verlag
EUR 15,50

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Ausgezeichnet mit dem (österr.) "Journalismus-Preis von unten 2010"

Honoured by the (Austrian) "Journalism-Award from below 2010"