Word: kenyans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long-distance walk for a worthy cause is hardly a new idea, but Kenyan Michael Werikhe has taken the concept to new lengths. Over the past eight years, Werikhe, 33, has trekked thousands of miles across Africa and Europe to raise money to save the black rhino, one of the world's most endangered species...
Elephant tusks, rhino horns and leopard skins confiscated from poachers were a common sight in the "ivory room" of the Kenyan Game Department's Mombasa office, where Werikhe used to work. But a pair of 50-kg (110-lb.) tusks brought in one day by a game warden induced him to start his one-man crusade. "Being an African, I see wildlife as part of my heritage," Werikhe says. "If wildlife goes, then part of me is dead. I wanted to campaign for wildlife in my own private...
...country's land, generating hunger and poverty. In response, Maathai organized the Green Belt Movement, a national tree-planting program run by women. "Because women here are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve," explains Maathai, 49, who was the first Kenyan woman to earn a Ph.D. (in anatomy) and the first to become a professor at the University of Nairobi...
...species are worth one-fifth as much. Farmers get the plants for free. So far, Maathai has recruited about 50,000 women, who have spurred the planting of 10 million trees. She still has a long way to go toward her original goal of planting a tree for every Kenyan (the population is now about 24 million), but in the meantime, her idea has inspired similar movements in more than a dozen other African nations...
WHEN Harvard mailed the acceptance letters for the Class of '94, University administrators boasted of the fact that they had admitted many more international students than they ever had before. They cited a Nigerian from Hong Kong and a Kenyan from Singapore. Their joy reminded me of James Watt proclaiming a fully integrated cabinet by citing all of the different kinds of minorities who were represented...