Wangari's Trees Of Peace

A True Story From Africa

BY JEANETTE WINTERS

Brief Description:
Jeanette Winter tells of the Green Belt movement and its founder Wangari Maathai. In simple words and picures she explains how Wangari saw Kenya turning from a forest to a desert and how she started to try and change this, first by planting nine saplings in her own backyard, then by recruiting and organizing hundreds, then thousands, of woman to join her, paying them a small amount for each tree they planted that survived three months. Now many more than thirty million trees have been planted all over Africa, and women and local economies and empowered

Harcourt 2008 32 PP. Cloth

$17.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)