The country hosted a team of nobel winners to remember and celebrate one of them the Late Prof Wangari Maathai on the Africa Environment Day.
Prof Maathai was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.
She became the first African Woman to receive the award, and also the first environmentalist to receive the award for starting an environmental group which exists today- The Green Belt Movement.
The team dubbed The Nobel Women Initiative on Tuesday held it’s meeting at Kenya Forest Environment Education Trust auditorium at Karura area before moving to plant commemorative trees at the Prof Wangari Maathai Center.
They called upon environmentalists to emulate the former cabinet minister during the former President the Late Mwai Kibaki and rise and speak their mind about peace and the environment.
The team who had come from different countries of the world, were hosted by Kenya Forest Service, local environmentalists and The Green Belt Movement.
The Green Belt Movement chairperson who is also Wangari’s daughter Wanjira Maathai, applauded the initiative for remembering the hard, courageous and consistent work that was done by her late mother.
“We really appreciate todays event, it has reminded us a lot including teaching us so much. We realise that voice is not a problem. Silence is killing us” she said.
Some of the visiting Nobel winners are Shirin Ebadi, Oleksandra Matriichuk, Lymah Gbowee among others.
Ebadi stress of keeping peace, and preaching about it in nearly all the time.
She said peace assures people in a country of coexistence regardless of what they do to earn a living.
The Nobel winners also thanked president William Ruto for driving a campaign aimed at growing 15 billion trees by 2032, adding that the move will impact positively to the country’s environment.
