A feminine superforce

October 18, 2004

Hi

Devi Bhakta wrote in his email:

> We are merely Devi's eyes and ears and hands and arms. By becoming

> Her, we

> become tools through which She can do more of what must be done. We

> should all strive to become such tools.

A person who to me is a tool through which the Godess express herself is

this years nobelprizewinner prof Wangari Maathai - a feminine superforce:

Some excerpts from her homepage:

"Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya (Africa) in 1940. The

first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree, Prof.

Maathai obtained a degree in Biological Sciences from Mount St.

Scholastica College in Atchison, Kansas (1964). She subsequently earned

a Master of Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh (1966). She

pursued doctoral studies in Germany and the University of Nairobi,

obtaining a Ph.D. (1971) from the University of Nairobi where she also

taught veterinary anatomy. She became chair of the Department of

Veterinary Anatomy and an associate professor in 1976 and 1977

respectively. In both cases, she was the first woman to attain those

positions in he region. Wangari Maathai was active in the National

Council of Women of Kenya in 1976 -87 and was it chairman in 1981-87. It

was while she served the National Council of Women that she introduced

the idea of planting trees with the People in 1976 and continued to

develop it into broad-based, grassroots organization whose main focus is

the planting of trees with women groups in order to conserve the

environment and improve their quality of life. However, through the

Green belt Movement she has assisted women in planting more than 20

million trees on their farms and on schools and church compounds.

"She has embarked on new challenges, playing a leading global role as a

co-chair, of the Jubilee 2000 Africa Campaign, which seeks cancellation

of the unpayable backlog debts of the poor countries in Africa by the

year 2000. Her campaign against land grabbing and rapacious allocation

of forests land that has caught the limelight in the recent past.

Wangari Maathai is internationally recognized for her persistent

struggle for democracy, human rights and environmental conservation."

Regards

Lars

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