![]() Scholastica College in the United States, and graduated in 1964. ![]() She was always a star student she won a scholarship to study biology at Mount St. Cecilia Intermediary, a local mission school. ![]() ![]() She always saw herself as “a child of the soil”, growing up with her mother’s belief that trees were ‘God’ and should be respected accordingly, something she made the foundation of her life’s work. Wangari’s childhood was spent in the outdoors, playing in the fig trees and the stream around her home, and helping her mother collect firewood for the household. Her parents were farmers, and she was the third of six children. Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, a rural area in the central highlands of Kenya in 1940. This week brings to mind the story of another greening movement that was the brainchild, and life-long passion, of an incredible woman named Wangari Maathai. It is a reminder of the critical role that vegetation plays in the conservation of water and soil, and thus of life itself. It is marked by the planting of thousands of trees, through community events. The first week of July is celebrated in India as Van Mahotsav or Forest Festival. ![]()
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