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External event
World Social Work Day 2024 Webinar
By the end of thewebinarparticipants will be able to:
Raise awareness about the challenges regarding water insecurity and Menstrual Health Management and Hygiene.
Describe safe and sustainable menstrual products and period friendly sanitation facilities.
Identify grass root strategies social workers and engineers can engage in to enhance water security and menstrual health and hygiene for transformative change.
Value women’s menstrual rights as global human rights to increase well-being.
Event contact:
Felicia J. Tuggle Ph.D., MSW, Assistant Professor, DepartmentofSociology, Anthropology& Social Work
Sunday, 3 March is Africa Environment Day/Wangari Maathai Day
What to do?
Share information and posters (see below) with your social media groups
Share with your students or co-workers
Invite a guest lecture to talk about the environment
Teach Maathai's biography and model
Put details in your newsletter
Selected publications
Sesanti, S 2021, “Afrocentric education’s foundations of Wangari Maathai’s philosophical (ethical) leadership,” South African journal of philosophy, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 395–409.
Alrasheedi, NJ 2023, “An Exploration of the Decolonization and Ecofeminist Activism of Indigenous Kenyan Women in Wangari Maathai’s Memoir Unbowed: One Woman’s Story,” Theory and practice in language studies, vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 3346–3351.
Namulundah Florence 2018, “Wangari Maathai the educator: Straddling tradition and modernity,” Journal of global education and research (Print), vol. 1, no. 1.
Presbey, GM 2013, “Women’s empowerment: the insights of Wangari Maathai,” Journal of global ethics, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 277–292.
Download pdf or image of the poster above for your notice board or social media.
From our Blog
Professor Wangarĩ Muta Maathai's work transformed families, communities and society in several ways. She formed the Green Belt Movement (GBM) in 1977 to champion planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. More than 50 million trees were planted in Kenya mainly by women members of GBM, and More than 900,000 Kenyan women benefited from her tree-planting campaign by selling seedlings for reforestation. In 2004, she won the Nobel Peace Price in 2004. In 2012, the African Union recognised her work by making March 3rd the Africa Environment and Wangari Maathai Day.
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