30471: Leiderman: comment re 30466: the long Kenyan reach (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: leiderman@mindspring.com


24 May 2007

dear Readers:

thanks for the post about a promising alliance between Lambi Fund and Wangari Maathai toward Haiti reforestation.  I've also been corresponding with her secretariat since the '04 Nobel award, as probably others have, on a national plan of action for Haiti.  it is fitting that her long Kenyan reach and the prestige of international recognition may now touch the bare hillsides of Haiti.

last week at the United Nations during a symposium on environmental refugees <http://www.ony.unu.edu/16May2007.html> several of us plus four distinguished delegates from The Haitian League asserted, "If you reforest Haiti, you can turn the refugee boats around without even touching them."  some panelists understood, while others didn't seem to have a clue...

thank you,

Stuart Leiderman
leiderman@mindspring.com

the website address to the Broomfield, Colorado news article is
http://www.broomfieldenterprise.com/news/2007/may/09/local-activist-nobel-winner-work-to-reforest/

the website to the Kenya Greenbelt Movement is
http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/

for those overseas, Wangari Maathai will spend two days in Amsterdam to launch her autobiography "Unbowed" in Dutch. She will be giving a short lecture and reading from the book, followed by a book signing.
her contact information:

Green Belt Movement - US Office
4245 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 860
Arlington, VA 22203
Phone: +1 (703) 807-2007
Email: sfine@greenbeltmovement.org

Green Belt Movement - Europe Office
Development House
56-64 Leonard Street
London, United Kingdom
EC2A 4LT
Phone: +44 (0) 207-549-0395
Fax: +44 (0) 207-549-0396
Email: gbmi@greenbeltmovement.org

Green Belt Movement Headquarters
Hughes Building, 1st Floor
Muindi Mbingu Street, Kenyatta Avenue Wing
P.O. Box 67545-00200
Nairobi, Kenya
Phone: +254 (0) 202-11842 / 20159
Fax: +254 (0) 202-21628
Email: jkaruga@greenbeltmovement.org

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