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Wangari Maathai | Money Alone Won’t Help Africa

Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai argues that well-intentioned aid to Africa may have unexpected negative consequences. She draws from Sharon Stone’s pledge to buy anti-malaria bed nets in Tanzania to explain why money alone will not solve Africa’s problems.

“Sometimes the best intentions don’t solve the problems. And then these people become very disappointed when the problem is not solved and they feel like ‘oh, these people cannot be helped’.  But it is because the problem was not thought through”

Wangari Muta Maathai is the founder of the Green Belt Movement, which, through networks of rural women, has planted over 30 million trees across Kenya since 1977. In 2002, she was elected to Kenya’s Parliament in the first free elections in a generation, and in 2003 was appointed Assistant Minister for Environment, Natural Resources, and Wildlife.

(via fyeahafrica: fora tv)

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