Apr 19 2013 Nyeri: el árbol de Wangari Maatahi

• Road to Nyeri Kenya

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  No champagne bottles uncorked not make any hasty call. Simply, planted a tree. He had just announced that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to get.

• Carretera de Nairobi a Nyeri Kenia

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  No champagne bottles uncorked not make any hasty call. Simply, planted a tree. He had just announced that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to get.

• Nyeri Outspan of Kenia

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  No champagne bottles uncorked not make any hasty call. Simply, planted a tree. He had just announced that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to get.

• wangari maathai

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  No champagne bottles uncorked not make any hasty call. Simply, planted a tree. He had just announced that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to get.

No champagne bottles uncorked not make any hasty call. Simply, planted a tree. He had just announced that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to get. That tulip tree of Gabon Gardens Decorating hotel Outspan the Nyeri, in Kenya, is the best tribute to a unique woman, Wangari Maathai. The last day 1, Kenyan prompting the planting 30 million trees, courage mother nature, would have turned 73 years. A cancer took her in 2011, unfortunately for a continent that needs of women like her, of his tenacity and determination, to try to illuminate a more just society. Maathai was one of Africa in which I, that one day, I hope, darken the satrapies of corrupt leaders, venal leaders that ruin one generation after another.

The abundance of shamba heralds the approach of Nyeri, the city nestled at the foot of the Aberdares Mountains. The goats graze on the roadside weeds and, with a gas, a small flock of sheep on a mountain hocica waste in search of their daily ration. The Outspan is a colonial building in a dream, a haven where the tourist is back jiggling several hours of road from Nairobi before heading to the Aberdares. Long before,on October 2004, Maathai here to surprise him the news that he had been awarded the Nobel, the hotel was already famous for its magnificent views of the Mount Kenya and being forced pilgrimage site for "boy scouts". Here is the house where he lived the last years of his life the founder of this youth movement, Robert Baden-Powell, Today a small museum. Baden-Powell used to say that "the closer you Nyeri, closer you happiness ". The epitaph on his tomb, located in the city cemetery, lives up to that passion: "Me he gone home".

Maathai was one of Africa in which I, that one day, I hope, darken the satrapies of corrupt leaders, venal leaders that ruin one generation after another

Built on a hill in 1928, materials to raise the hotel, especially wood, had to be hauled on the backs of oxen, whom he had to release the yoke ("Outspan" in English, hence the name) at the end of their homework so they could face another tough day the next day. The gardens, overflowing with jacarandas where towering palm trees rise, matured leaves fan, invite relaxation.

While few beers on the terrace of colonial atmosphere Outspan, we offer a visit to a village whose Kikuyu of cardboard huts guess a huge garden fencing. The experience is completed with a dance display Kikuyu. The mere possibility of ending bouncing around a campfire with a collar around his neck tribal advised me, however, decline the invitation.

In these same grounds, Maatahi received 8 October 2004 the best news of his life: the award of the Nobel Peace

I prefer to walk in the gardens, of lush tropical greenery, until you reach a nearby house that seems uninhabited. From its terrace, hung in the middle of a hillside, contemplates a succession of peaks straddling a ridge that soon dissipates a cloak grim. In these same grounds, Maatahi (who was responsible for the Environment in the government of former President Kibaki, kikuyu como ella) paused in the way the 8 October 2004, road from the town of Tetu, not knowing that he would get the best news ever. "I was not ready to listen that I had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; I wonder if someone is. The news chilled my blood ". She herself remembers that moment in his highly recommended "With your head held high" (Editorial Lumen, 2006):

"The manager and his workers rushed to congratulate and manager, at the insistence of his fellow, brought a seedling and a shovel to celebrate the good news in the best way he knew: planting a tree. (…) Surrounded by reporters, hotel employees and guests, I set out to plant one tree in the garden strong input, from which we had a magnificent view of the imposing profile of Mount Kenya, north, in the distance. (…) Everyone knows that the mountain is somewhat shy and usually appears its top covered by a blanket of clouds. That day was hidden. (…) I stared at her and felt that, in all probability, I was crying with joy and hid her tears behind a veil of white clouds. At that moment I had the feeling of standing on holy ground "

"Why not plant trees?”, wondered 1966 to the evidence that traditional crops of his childhood were replaced by tea and coffee plantations of colonial heritage

Maathai loved the land where she was born. "There is nothing more beautiful than to cultivate the field at eventide", wrote. A quote from his book, evoking his childhood, made me reflect on cultural differences, often, soslayamos when making value judgments about other peoples. "My classmates and I could not wait to return home to work the fields and feel again the earth in his hands".

One fine day, with the evidence that in the central region of Kenya, one of the most fertile in the country, they were replacing traditional crops (sustaining most of the population) by tea and coffee (legacy of the colonial administration), decided to take action. "Why not plant trees?”, he asked with the innocence of who puts no limits on your dreams. Was born, that year 1966, the Green Belt Movement. Sus purposes are a waste of common sense:

"Trees provide fodder for cattle and goats, and wood so that women could cook up nutritious and fences. Shadow would both animals and people and shelter to the basins of the rivers, maintain the soil together and, if they orchards, also produce food. Addition, would attract birds and insects that help to heal the earth and infuse vitality and energy "

The Green Belt Movement, she championed, came to plant more than 30 million trees only in Kenya

Almost half a century later, the movement that this exceptional woman created from nothing has planted more than thirty million trees in Kenya alone, extending its green philosophy to countries like Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Ruanda y Mozambique. Rest in Peace Wangari Maathai the, as they say the Kikuyu, “arokoma kuuraga” (it rests where it rains).