from aangirfan
Professor Wangari Maathai (Nobel laureate and environmentalist) was born in the central highlands of Kenya in 1940.
Back in the 1940s, her small village had clean water, rich soils, rich forests and plenty of food.
"It was heaven. We wanted for nothing," she said.
"Now the forests have come down, the land has been turned to commercial farming, the tea plantations keep
