THE GREEN BELT MOVEMENT
This
organisation mobilises communities to restore their environment in Kenya
and provides a raft of benefits: all at a grassroots level. It has achieved
a phenomenal amount.
Forests are the key to a healthy environment in arid areas, providing water, food and many supplies. Professor Wangari Mathaai set up the GBM and they have since planted over 30 million trees, more recently she has set up the United Nation's 'Billion Tree Campaign'. She is the first person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for environmental work.