Apr 20, 2023 1 Min Read
For the next four years, Wanjira Maathai, the late Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai's daughter, will direct a new land restoration project in the Greater Rift Valley, Ghana's Cocoa Belt, and the Lake Kivu and Rusizi River Basin along the DRC-Rwanda-Burundi border.
This comes after the World Resources Institute (WRI), which she leads as Managing Director, Africa and Global Partnerships, was awarded USD 100 million (approximately Ksh.13.5 billion) by NGO TED through its Audacious Project, a collaborative funding initiative launched in 2018 to catalyze large-scale social impact.
Every year, the Audacious Project selects a cohort of projects that represent bold solutions to the world's challenges.
The kitty was given to WRI's Restore Local initiative, which provides restoration champions across the continent with the assistance they require.
Local farmers, entrepreneurs, and communities, according to Ms. Maathai, have the potential to fully restore Africa's degraded lands.
"However, they won't be able to do so without the right tools, platforms, and resources." "All of us — from governments to investors to non-governmental organizations — have a role to play in empowering Africa's restoration champions to do their work," she said.
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