💦 https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/wangari-maathai-i-will-be-a-hummingbird

“We are constantly being bombarded by problems that we face and sometimes we can get completely overwhelmed,” Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor #WangariMaathai begins…

"The story of the hummingbird is about this huge forest being consumed by a fire. All the animals in the forest come out and they are transfixed as they watch the forest burning and they feel very overwhelmed, very powerless, except this little hummingbird. It says, ‘I’m going to do something about the fire!’ So it flies to the nearest stream and takes a drop of water. It puts it on the fire, and goes up and down, up and down, up and down, as fast as it can."

#animation #video #storytelling #earthday

#blackhistorymonth ✊🏾

Black history month will come to an end, however, here at GenderCC we celebrate and honor the life, work and legacy of black activists and scholars everyday and every single month through our advocacy work.

Today we are paying tribute to Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmental and political activist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

In 1977, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement which is an indigenous grassroots organization in Kenya that empowers women and focuses on planting trees and environmental conservation. She was a pioneer in linking environmental protection to human rights. The Green Belt Movement has planted more than 130 million trees in Africa and helped more than 900.000 (according an estimation in 2016).
Maathai’s activism started from a dream that she had as a child living in rural Kenya, and she devoted her life to protecting the environment and promoting democracy and peace.

Find more information here: www.greenbeltmovement.org

#blackhistory #wangarimaathai #feminism #climatechange #climatejustice #genderequality #genderjustice #greenbeltmovement #actnow #activism #climateactivist