What did Maathai decide to do for the community?

The problems faced by women in Kenya were the problems of:-

1. Firewood

2. Malnutrition

3. Lack of food

4. Adequate water

5. Unemployment

6. Soil erosion

The most important achievement of the greenbelt movement described in the text is that women were independent, had acquired knowledge and techniques, had been empowered.

The forester's ways were not helpful to the women for planting trees because they have complicated ways of dealing with a very simplething like looking for seeds and planting trees.

She started The Green Belt Movement on World Environment Day, June 5,1977 by planting first seven trees.

The donors want to provide money to the women because the efforts of women are producing results.

The speaker has been portrayed as subversive when the speaker criticized the political leadership.

The agencies that supported her movement are:

1. United Nations Development Fund for Women

2. The Danish Voluntary Fund

3. The African Development Foundation

4. The Norwegian Agency for International Development and so on