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UNBOWED- WANGARI MAATHAI
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UNBOWED- WANGARI MAATHAI
Servant Leadership
Put their followers first
Serve the greater good of the organization, community and society
Behaviors
Green Belt Movement
Characteristics
- Conceptualizing
- Emotional healing
- Help followers grow and succeed
- Behaving ethically
- Empowering
- Creating value for the community
- Listening
- Empathy
- Healing
- Awareness
- Persuasion
- Conceptualization
- Foresight
- Commitment to the growth of people
- Building the community
-Founded in 1977
-Encouraged women to work together
- Professor Maathai felt that being poor made it harder for these communities to protect their environment.
-The Green Belt Movement instituted seminars in civic and environmental education.
-The Green Belt Movement began to fight for greater democratic space and more accountability from national leaders.
Environmental Leadership
Education
Experience
- What does it take to be an environmental leader?
- Why is it important?
- University College of Nairobi
- Member of Nairobi branch of the Kenya Red Cross Society
- Kenya association of University Women,
- Was a chair member of the Environment Liaison Center
- Joined National Council of Women of Kenya
- Started Green Belt Movement
- Studied at Kansas at Mount St. Scholastica and graduated with a bachelors in biology
- Masters in Biological Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
- In 1971, got her doctorate degree at the University of Nairobi.
- She was the first female to obtain a PHD in East Africa
History of Kenya
Kenya was first inhabited 2 million years ago
Awards
It was under British rule until 1956 when the Mau Mau rebellion took place
They became independent on December 12, 1963
Nairobi is the capital city and the home of Maathai
Nobel Peace Prize
Her Childhood
Her Family
-April 1, 1940
-Born on in a small village in the highlands
Her Family
- Her parents were well educated
-Father figure was very professional
-In her culture having more than one wife was common
Has three children
- Waweru, Wanjira, Muta
Was married, then got divorced