My Mother is Planting a Forest

Content : 1980, in a village in Kenya.
One evening, Wanjiru sees her mother returning home, her eyes shining with incredible news: a woman, Wangari Maathai, is inviting the village women to join a reforestation movement — the Green Belt Movement. Together, they will plant trees, learn how to grow seedlings, and be paid for every sapling that survives.

Wanjiru listens, fascinated. For the first time, she imagines a different future. But can you really plant a forest?

A look back at the commitment of Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to receive a Nobel Prize — the Peace Prize, for her contribution to sustainable development and democracy. This collective commitment, full of hope, reminds us that everyone has the power to get involved and help bring about change.

About the series:
Picture books to embody History through the lives of individuals.
A fiction anchored in the context of an important event of the 20th century.
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