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Firsts Quotes by Wangari Maathai
- I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate. As the…
- In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood,…
- When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet…
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