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1 | the green belt movement Annual Report 2014
the green belt movement A NNU AL R E P O R T 2 0 1 4
2 | the green belt movement Annual Report 2014
table of contents
3 A Message from the Board Chair
4 About the Green Belt Movement
6 Tree Planting and Water Harvesting
7 Corporate Partnerships
8 Climate Change
9 Gender, Livelihood and Advocacy
11 Outreach Updates — Kenya
Updates from Green Belt Movement
International — United Kingdom and U.S.A.
12 Financial Statements for 2014
15 Supporters and Partners
16 GBM Board and Staff
17 The Wangari Muta Maathai House —
A Legacy Project
“We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve
the environment so that we can bequeath our children
a sustainable world that benefits all.”
— PROFESSOR WANGARI MAATHAI
Founder, The Green Belt Movement
Image Credits
All photos © Green Belt Movement and Manoocher — USAID
unless noted below.
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a message from the board chair
Dear Friends,
I am delighted to present to you the 2014 Annual Report for the Green Belt Movement.
It has been an inspiring year and one of continued resurgence. I owe the success stories
you will read about in this report to the unwavering commitment and leadership of a
delightful team of staff whose values and hard work continue to shine through. I must
also salute the leadership of our Executive Director, Mrs. Aisha Karanja, who continues
to increase the visibility of the Green Belt Movement.
Tree planting for community mobilization and empowerment continues to be our focus.
This year, we planted a total of 438,129 trees with communities around Kenya. We are
also opening new groups as we introduce to the women we work with, the adoption of
clean and renewable fuels and technologies.
It is not lost to us that the communities we work with are on the frontlines in the struggle for
energy security. In Kenya, over 15,000, mostly women and children, die from complications
related to indoor air pollution. These are unacceptably terrible effects on personal health,
climate and the overall quality of life of the communities involved. The Green Belt Movement
is proud to be joining in the effort to change this. Cooking and heating should not kill! In
partnership with the wPOWER Hub at the Wangari Maathai Institute (WMI), the Green Belt
Movement has trained four clean energy and entrepreneurship leaders who are leading the
way in driving this agenda at the Green Belt Movement.
We are very proud of the partnerships we continue to forge as we strive for the highest
impact in landscape restoration. In rehabilitating Sondu Miriu River Catchment, we have
partnered with the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum and the Kenya Forest Service to
reforest 155.6 hectares of Chepalungu forest in the Rift Valley. The success of this project
has been a source of great pride to all involved, making it the “best among all the projects
the Ministry is implementing in the country.”
Finally, during the Climate Change COP20 events in Lima, Peru, we were honored when
the Municipality of San Borja (the district in Lima hosting COP20) dedicated a beautiful park
in memory of Professor Wangari Maathai. It was a beautiful end to a fruitful year.
Thank you for your continued support and interest in our work. You keep us going!
We are proud of the achievements of the Green Belt Movement this year and look forward
to an even brighter 2015!
WANJIRA MATHAI, CHAIR
The Green Belt Movement Board
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VISION
The vision of GBM is to create a value driven society
of people who consciously work for the improvement
of their livelihoods and a greener, cleaner Kenya.
MISSION
GBM’s mission is to strive for better environmental
management, community empowerment, and livelihood
improvement using tree-planting as an entry point.
CORE VALUES
GBM promotes the following values:
• Love for environment conservation
• Self and community empowerment
• Volunteerism
• Accountability, transparency and honesty
Founded by Professor Wangari Maathai, the
Green Belt Movement (GBM) is a grassroots
non-governmental organization working in
environmental conservation and community
development in Kenya for over 30 years. What
began as a grassroots tree planting program
to address the challenges of deforestation, soil
erosion and lack of water is now a vehicle for
empowering women and communities.
Its mission is to strive for better environmental
management, community empowerment, and
livelihood improvement using tree-planting as
an entry point. The results of these efforts are
a reduction in soil erosion in critical watersheds,
restoration and protection of thousands of
acres of biodiversity-rich indigenous forest,
and hundreds of thousands of women and their
families standing up for their rights and those
of their communities, and living healthier, more
productive lives
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The Green Belt Movement has four main areas of
activity— Tree Planting and Water Harvesting; Gender,
Livelihood and Advocacy; Mainstream Advocacy; and
Climate Change and Corporate Partnerships. Each area
of work builds on and informs the others.
v Tree Planting and Water Harvesting
Using GBM’s Watershed Based Approach, communities
help to conserve biodiversity, restore ecosystems, and
reduce the impact of climate change. GBM relies on
its network of over 4000 community groups to deliver
its watershed based approach. Our core values of
volunteering in-service to your community help to inspire
protection of public spaces for present and future
generations.
v Climate Change and Corporate Partnerships
CLIMATE CHANGE: Current climate change policies
and actions in Kenya, and world-over, do not provide
effective support for community engagement in decision
making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental
conservation. It is because of this that GBM has a
Climate Change Program that aims at strengthening the
understanding and capacity of rural communities to take
action against climate change as well as raise awareness
nationally on the role of local communities and forests
in tackling climate change.
CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS: The main goal of this
program is to mobilize corporate organizations’
consciousness for the rehabilitation of urban ecosystems
through tree planting as a ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’
(CSR).
v Mainstream Advocacy
We continue advocating for greater political accountability
and the expansion of democratic space in Kenya. GBM
has called for, time and time again, an end to land
grabbing, deforestation and corruption as well as for
the protection of public spaces in the country.
v Gender, Livelihood and Advocacy
GBM builds on over 35 years of experience working
with the community at the grassroots level. Through
the Community Empowerment and Education program
(CEE), community members are educated about the
linkages between human activity and the environment,
which empowers them to unite, take action, and stand
up for their rights.
GBM promotes and enhances gender relations and
involves women in decision-making processes. The
CEE centers on women and community empowerment
to take over leadership in their own situations.
GBM’s experience shows that when the communities
understand the linkage between their actions, the
environment and their livelihood situations (poverty,
water scarcity and soil loss and food insecurity) they
are more likely to muster their energies and to take
action for change.
Through our CEE approach, we take community
members through a process of understanding their
environment, natural resources and identifying their
problems and together, exploring sustainable solutions
to these problems that affect their livelihoods.
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KE Y 2014 HIGHLIGHTS
tree planting and water harvesting KE Y 2014 HIGHLIGHTS
corporate partnerships
Our Bamboo Biomass and Entrepreneurship
Project featured on the Climate Reality
Project
The Green Belt Movement (GBM) and the wPOWER
Hub at the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and
Environmental Studies at the University of Nairobi
presented two stories during the Climate Reality
Project’s fourth-annual 24 Hours of Reality broadcast,
“24 Hours of Reality: 24 Reasons for Hope.”
Ms. Wanjira Mathai, GBM’s Chairperson and Project
Director of the wPOWER hub, joined the discussion
on how to accelerate the shift to a sustainable future
powered by affordable, renewable sources of energy,
with sustainable agriculture and forestry, to see the
featured field report go http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=vo2bBzw2m84.
Effective Natural Resource Management in
Chania Watershed of Aberdare Ecosystem
This project was implemented in Kiambu and Nyandarua
Counties in Chania Watershed.
Using a participatory approach, we identified alternative
livelihood options for the community in order to reduce
dependence on the forest and tree cover along riparian
reserves in the watershed. We supported community
based tree planting campaigns in degraded water
catchment areas inside gazetted forest, public and
private lands.
Three workshops were conducted in the region in
a bid to strengthen local communities’ capacity to
protect the watershed and restore the function
of natural ecosystems. Participants were trained on:
water retention, biodiversity protection and rural
income generation.
Forest restoration, REDD and PES promotion
in Upper Tana Watershed, Kenya
Green Belt Movement partnered with Global
Environmental Facility / Small Grant Programme
(GEF/ SGP) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to restore
Upper Sagana and Gura Watersheds in Nyeri County.
GBM is building change agents who are championing
water and soil conservation on farm and riparian reserves
in Upper Tana Watershed, Nyeri County. GBM is using its
watershed based approach to involve local communities
in planning and implementing conservation initiatives on
their farms and on the riparian reserves.
These initiatives will address unsustainable agricultural
practices affecting natural resources management in
the area. The ultimate goal is to ensure food security,
environmental conservation, and water harvesting and
soil and water conservation on farm. GBM is delighted
to be part of the first Water Fund in Africa, working with
women’s groups and coffee farmers on the ground to
reverse deforestation, improve land management and
protect the Upper Tana watershed.
GBM in Partnership with GEF / SGP planted 80,126 trees
in Kabaru and Zuti forest under this partnership in a bid
to restore degraded forests and riparian reserves.
GBM also partnered with Jambo Tours and planted
26,000 trees in Hombe forest in Mt. Kenya. Communities
were also empowered through capacity building on food
security and water harvesting at the household level.
GBM has trained community members from Upper Tana who will
monitor water quality in 83 sites in Upper Tana Watersheds.
The main goal of this program is to mobilize
corporate organizations’ consciousness for the
rehabilitation of urban ecosystems through tree
planting as a ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’
(CSR). The highlight was the establishment of a
tree nursery at Starehe Girls High School with a
capacity to produce 20,000 seedlings annually.
Sir John Peace, Chairman, Standard Chartered PLC during the tree
planting activity at Starehe Girls High School.
Update on the Afforestation of Sondu Miriu
River Catchment
Green Belt Movement (GBM) under a three-year contract
by the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum to rehabilitate the
Sondu Miriu River Catchment, in the Mau Conservancy
is now in its second year.
The project site is located at Kapchumbe in the
Chepalungu forest in Bomet County and has an area
of 155.6 hectares.
The Chepalungu site has been afforested with a total
number of 248,960 indigenous trees of various species.
The three year project, carried out under the Kenya
Energy and Environment Social Responsibility Program
(KEEP) fund of the Ministry of Energy, is ongoing. Kenya
Forest Service (KFS) is supervising the project as well as
conducting monitoring and evaluation with the Ministry of
Energy and Petroleum.
A tree planting activity with Moi Girls High School.
Nairobi Urban Greening Project in partnership
with Trees for Cities
The objective of this project is planting trees in school
compounds with each school planting an average of
2000 seedlings.
In 2014, we worked with 11 schools around Nairobi and
Kiambu Counties in partnership with the Kenya Defence
Forces and Kenya Forest Services.
Under the Nairobi Urban Greening Project, the program
engaged different institutions namely: Nairobi School,
Moi Girls High School, Lenana School, Loreto Convent
High School, Kenya High School, Statehouse Girls High
School, Moi Forces Academy, Defence Training College,
Utalii College and Upper Hill High Schools.
Officials from the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum team inspect one of
the seedlings in the project area.
The Ministry applauded GBM’s project management and community
mobilization, stating that this is the best among all the projects the
Ministry is implementing in the country.
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KE Y 2014 ACHIE VEMENTS
climate change KE Y 2014 HIGHLIGHTS
gender, livelihood and advocacy
Climate change poses one of the greatest
challenges facing the world in the 21st
century and therefore the aim of this program
is to improve awareness levels on climate
change. This is achieved by increasing the
capacity of vulnerable rural communities to
share their experience and to take appropriate
strategies in tackling climate change.
Catalyzing Forest and Landscape
Rehabilitation for Climate Resilience
and Biodiversity Conservation in East Africa
As part of the Bonn Challenge (to restore 150 million
hectares of lost and degraded forests by 2020), World
Resources Institute (WRI) mapped global landscape
restoration opportunities. The results showed that there
are more than 100 million hectares of land that can be
restored in East Africa.
The overall goal of this project is to initiate landscape
restoration of one million hectares in Ethiopia and Kenya
as a new contribution to the Bonn Challenge.
In 2014, we planted 50,000 indigenous tree seedlings in
the selected planting site of Gatondo, Geta forest. We
also conducted six training workshops, which focused on
climate change causes, effects and mitigation as well as
sustainable organic farming practices.
This project is a partnership between the Green Belt
Movement, the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) and the
World Resources Institute (WRI) and is funded by the
German Ministry of Environment.
At least130 community group farmers were selected from
the three locations and were facilitated to initiate on-farm
activities to enable them cope with effects of climate
change. The on-farm activities include: water harvesting,
kitchen gardens and fodder growing.
Unveiling of a plaque in honour of Wangari Maathai in
Lima, Peru.
UNFCCC COP 20
The 20th session of the Conference of Parties
to the UNFCCC took place in Lima, Peru from
December 1 to 12, 2014.
A team from Green Belt Movement was part of the
COP 20 Sustainable Innovation Forum that brought
together world leaders, senior executives, investors
and industry experts to share ideas and accelerate
innovative solutions to address climate change,
accelerate green growth and sustainable development.
As part of the UNFCC COP 20 events, the Municipality
of San Borja, the district hosting the event, organized a
ceremonial tree planting at the city of Lima to honor the
Memory of Professor Wangari Maathai for her actions in
promoting sustainable development, democracy, peace
and environmental conservation.
“My wish and hope is
to see this forest as thick
as it was 20 years ago”.
— MARY NYAMBURA, GATONDO
Integrated rehabilitation of Ewaso Ngiro
(Kirisia) Ecosystem
Samburu County is predominantly semi-arid. Increased
human dependence on forest resources alongside erratic
rainfall patterns have resulted in prolonged drought and
severe weather events in recent years. In partnership with
the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, Yves Rocher
Foundation and the Schooner Foundation, this project in
Samburu County entered its third year of implementation.
In 2014 the Green Belt Movement began a permaculture
initiative. Working with communities to design and
integrate ecological knowledge into their daily activities
could help the pastoralists of Samburu cope better
with the impacts of climate change. The permaculture
approach included: sustainable agriculture, simple
water harvesting technologies, value addition and post
harvesting care. This was one of the most successful
project activities since the community mindset has
changed and they are currently practicing permaculture.
In 2014, 79,497 trees were planted to rehabilitate 250
hectares, bringing the total number of trees planted by
the end of 2014 to 257,896 in the forest, on farm and
public lands.
The project targeted to create 50 community groups,
this target was surpassed and 68 community groups
were formed with a membership of 476 (Men-189,
women-287).
Water shortage in Samburu County is a drawback to
development in the area; with this in mind, we supplied
six water tanks, each with a 5000 liter capacity to five
schools and one tree nursery group.
A Sustainable Peace Project through
Promotion of Good Governance,
Democracy, Environmental Management
and Peaceful Transition
The Green Belt Movement in partnership with Green
Cross Sweden through financial support from Folke
Bernadotte Academy has played a critical role in the
process of dialogue, negotiation, reconciliation and
cultivating a culture of peace in Nakuru County. This
project is based on Professor Wangari Maathai’s Three
Legged Stool Concept, which has been adopted as
a training tool to help citizens and students within
communities to understand the interdependence
between good governance, democracy and peace for
sustainable development. This was the very principle
that the Professor created as a basis for conducting all
community education and empowerment.
Through its holistic approach to development, the project
addresses the underlying social, political, and economic
causes of poverty and environmental degradation at the
grassroots level. The empowerment seminars have aimed
to help community members make the critical linkages
between the environment, governance, and their quality of
life, as peace, security and sustainability are one in the
same and co-dependent.
The aim of the empowerment is to inspire participants
to develop a deep desire to better their own lives and
communities. As they gain economic security, they are
willing to protect shared resources such as forests,
public parks, and rivers. This is the fundamental basis of
Professor Maathai’s methodology where addressing a
serious problem starts with a simple solution: engaging
citizens and entire communities to plant trees, as a
symbol of their commitment.
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gender, livelihood and advocacy, cont outreach updates— KENYA updates from Green Belt Movement International — UNITED KINGDOM AND U.S.A.
Participants pose for a group photo during one of the TOT trainings.
Training Rural Women For Environmental,
Economic and Livelihood Improvement
in the Great Lakes Region
In partnership with New Course and funded by the
MacArthur Foundation, this three-year program seeks
to build the capacity of rural communities (especially
women) to manage natural resources and expand
incentives to conserve natural resources in three high
biodiversity watersheds. They are: Mount Elgon - Uganda
(Upper Nile watershed), the Mau Complex and parts of
Western Aberdares (Lake Victoria watersheds) and the
Cherangany water tower (Turkana / Omo).
We developed a training curriculum that focused on:
transformative leadership, environmental stewardship,
sustainable clean energy entrepreneurship and content
delivery. A baseline survey on the socioeconomic status
was done to act as a benchmark for measuring impact,
monitoring and evaluation.
By the end of 2014, 74 community Trainer of Trainees
(TOTs) were trained from the Mau Complex and parts
of Western Aberdares. In addition to implementing what
they were trained on, the TOTs have managed to train
other community members as well.
Smart Water for Green Schools Project
This project focused on providing access to safe
drinking water and sanitation. By equipping schools
and communities with rainwater harvesting systems
plus providing ecological sanitation facilities, this project
provided concrete and sustainable solutions to improve
the lives of people with no access to water.
Through our partnership with Green Cross Sweden,
we implemented a rainwater harvesting system and
constructed latrines in Kamara primary school. The
project provided a reliable supply of water, hygiene and
sanitation facilities, as well as environmental education to
school children, teachers, parents and other community
members. Smart water has been piloted in two schools:
Kamara primary and Mau summit primary school and
there has been positive feedback from the communities.
The Smart Water for Green Schools project is vital to the
health and livelihood of communities in Kenya.
This project is an example of how evaluation of a
successful pilot program can lead to expansion of an
intervention to reach many more students and their
families.
Participants at our TOT training learn more about setting up kitchen
gardens.
The Second Wangari Maathai Scholarship
Fund Award
Launched in October 2012 in Nairobi, the Wangari
Maathai Scholarship Fund is an environmental
innovations fund that seeks to encourage and
promote sustainable development through the spirit
of environmentalism as championed by the late Prof.
Maathai. The fund in its second cycle of granting for the
2013-2014 academic year saw the second recipient,
Sylvia Jemutai Rotich, awarded the scholarship. Sylvia,
a fourth year student at the University of Nairobi is
pursuing a BSc. in Environmental Conservation and
Natural Resource Management.
Celebrating the Third Anniversary for
Professor Wangari Maathai
September 25, 2014 marked the third memorial
anniversary of the late Nobel laureate and environ-
mentalist, Wangari Maathai. The event was held at
Wangari Maathai Corner in Karura forest, Nairobi.
Hon. Lady Justice Njoki Ndung’u joined Green Belt
Movement (GBM) Board members, staff, members of
GBM’s tree nursery groups, and the public to celebrate
Professor Wangari Maathai’s life and her outstanding
achievements in environmental conservation, sustainable
development, democracy and peace.
“One of the best ways we can honor
her, therefore, is by planting trees to
mark this occasion, which will serve
as a lasting memory.” — HON. NJOKI NDUNG’U
UNITED KINGDOM
Second Annual Wangari Maathai Memorial Lecture
Friends and supporters from across the globe joined the
Green Belt Movement International– Europe at the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew to commemorate the life and
work of Professor Maathai at the Second Annual Wangari
Maathai Memorial Lecture. Sir Jonathon Porritt, former
Director of Friends of the Earth UK and the Founding
Director of Forum for the Future, was the main speaker.
His talk was entitled, “Our Brilliant Low-Carbon Future.”
UNITED STATES
10th Anniversary of Wangari Maathai’s Nobel Peace
Prize Win
The Green Belt Movement International– US
commemorated the 10th anniversary of Wangari
Maathai’s Nobel Peace Prize win by planting a tree at
the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The tree
planting, along with a panel of distinguished speakers,
was organized by the Kenyan Mission, in collaboration
with the Green Belt Movement International – US, the
UN Forum on Forests, the Women’s Environment &
Development Organization (WEDO) and the International
Council of Women (ICW).
The Wangari Maathai Award for Civic Participation in
Sustainability
Two New York City public school students received
the Wangari Maathai Award for Civic Participation
in Sustainability. The award was presented to two
exceptional public school students who demonstrated
academic and extracurricular commitment to
environmental stewardship within the urban context, by
developing and executing sustainability-themed projects.
The award is funded by the Municipal Art Society and
the Rockefeller Foundation and both students received
a $10,000 cash award, intended to be used for their first
year of college.
The 2014 award winners were Alexandra Gumas from
Bard High School Early College and Jaylen Gregory from
NYC iSchool.
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financial statements for 2014
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Green Belt Movement Statement of Financial Position
Year Ended 31 December 2014
2014
Kshs
2013
Kshs
2012
Kshs
NON-CURRENT ASSETS
Property and Equipment 675,131,129 676,843,285 53,317,800
CURRENT ASSETS
Cash Balance 65,222,313 43,247,759 67,574,818
Receivables – 25,120,413 24,886,759
65,222,313 68,368,172 92,461,577
TOTAL ASSETS 740,353,442 745,211,457 145,779,377
RESERVES AND LIABILITIES RESERVES
General Reserves 717,812,814 625,842,678 26,704,444
CURRENT LIABILITIES
Payables 22,540,628 119,368,770 119,074,933
TOTAL RESERVES AND LIABILITIES 740,353,442 745,211,448 145,779,377
Green Belt Movement Statement of Comprehensive Income
Year Ended 31 December 2014
2014 Kshs
2013 Kshs
2012 Kshs
INCOME
Grants Received 117,118,121 105,511,622 99,695,485
Interest Income 1,270,633 767,157 3,150,634
Miscellaneous Income 3,019,919 4,479,119 6,476,221
TOTAL INCOME 131,408,673 110,757,898 109,322,340
EXPENDITURE
Environmental Rehabilitation 67,336,562 41,448,070 115,056,570
Advocacy and Networking – – 1,711,810
Project Equipment 2,882,338 2,361,211 4,377,192
Professional Services 5,248,531 8,718,781 18,345,525
Langata Expenses – 782,054 362,705
Project Overheads 4,049,650 11,268,106 1,956,939
Printing and Stationery 490,908 396,374 274,751
Personnel Costs 34,258,829 53,945,326 39,537,163
Staff Benefits 2,133,967 – –
Other Overheads — Administrative Costs 4,027,719 2,149,254 34,814,331
Repair and Maintenance 1,011,638 230,874 1,954,720
Telecommunication 1,299,569 1,648,045 754,660
Insurance 299,070 140,852 372,307
General Workshop 2,108,000 11,567 –
Stolen Equipment – 870,000 –
Bank Service Charges 588,207 467,032 –
Local travel 3,403,851 15,922,974 799,608
Foreign Travel 1,032,439 624,383 –
TOTAL EXPENDITURE 130,171,278 140,984,906 220,318,281
DEFICIT FOR THE YEAR
transferred to general reserves1,237,395 (30,227,008) (110,995,941)
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supporters and partners
We would like to thank our supporters and partners for their continuous support of the Green Belt
Movement. This includes our existing partners, donors and sponsors as their significant contributions
have helped us to run projects successfully in the last many years. We are also very much indebted
toward our past supporters; without them, the success of the organization at such level would not
be possible.
On behalf of the Board of Directors and the entire Green Belt Movement Team, thank you for your
engagement with our work. We look forward to sharing our journey with you over the coming years.
$100,000+
MacArthur Foundation
Ministry of Energy and Petroleum Kenya
U.S. State Department
$10,000+
Ashden Trust
Green Cross Sweden
Jambo Tours
Philantropia Foundation
Premiere Eye Care of Florida
Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation
Schooner Foundation
The Mainichi Newspapers Co. Ltd. Japan
The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
Trees for Cities
UNDP, GEF Small Grants Programme
Waterstone Resource Fiber Limited (Norway)
Yves Rocher Foundation
$1,000+
Aid for Africa
Berde Berdea
Bonnie Wilson
Brownington Foundation (Clare and Howard McMorris)
Calvert Social Investments (Constance Phillips)
Catherine Luther
Daniel Ehrenberg
Finley’s Green Leap Forward Fund
Goran Visnjic
Informa UK, LTD
Kate Hibschman
Lee Rosenberg
Longleaf Foundation
Matthew Erickson
Michael McKay - Auerbach Memorial Fund
Presbytery of Western North Carolina
RSF Social
Finance Source
Logistic
Standard Chartered Bank Kenya Ltd
Mrs Guislaine Perrier
Stephanie Van Dyke
The Rockefeller Foundation
In-Kind Supporters
Lucinda Crabtree
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Green Belt Movement Statement of Cash Flows
Year Ended 31 December 2014
2014
Kshs
2013
Kshs
2012
Kshs
OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Surplus /(Deficit) for the Year 1,237,395 (30,227,008) (110,995,941)
Depreciation 2,882,338 2,361,215 4,377,192
Gain on Disposal of Assets – – 1,025,761
Exchange Gain – 3,848,259 –
Assets Written off 90,732,732 – –
Purchase of Equipment (1,170,182) (369,710) (2,056,595)
(Decrease) /Increase in Receivables 25,120,413 (233,654) 25,259,896
Increase /(Decrease) in Payables (96,828,142) 293,839 61,847,262
Net Cash Generated from / (used in)
Operating Activities 21,974 ,554 (24,327,059) (20,542,425)
Increase /(Decrease) in Cash and Cash
Equivalents During the Year 21,974,554 (24,327,059) (20,542,425)
At Start of Year 43,247,759 67,574,818 88,117,243
Decrease During the Year 21,974,554 (24,327,059) (20,542,425)
Cash at End of the Year 65,222,313 43,247,759 67,574,818
REPRESENTED BY:
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS 65,222,313 43,247,759 67,574,818
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the Wangari Muta Maathai House — a legacy project
GBM Kenya Board
Wanjira Mathai, CHAIR
Vertistine Mbaya, TREASURER
Lillian Njehu, VICE TREASURER
Obadiah Kavivya, SECRETARY
Cyrus Kimamo, VICE SECRETARY
Miriam Chege
Njeri Gakonyo
Gerishon Kinyanjui
Peter Ndunda
Monica Opole
GBMI USA Board
Mia MacDonald, CHAIR
Wanjira Mathai, SECRETARY
Margaret (Peg) Snyder, TREASURER
Lorna Taylor
Ochoro Otunnu
Albert Cho
GBMI Europe Board
Maggie Baxter, CHAIR
Navjyot Johal, TREASURER
Wanjira Mathai
Roger Northcott, COMPANY SECRETARY
We are proud to acknowledge the remarkable
commitment, care, energy and skill with which the
Green Belt Movement staff and volunteers have
developed and delivered services and provided
support to achieve these goals.
Wangari Muta Maathai’s legacy takes many forms:
the special qualities of her personality and vision; the
lessons she took from her experiences; and the fortitude
she displayed in speaking truth to power. In Kenya, she
remains a symbol of hope and steadfastness. Her moral
authority, resoluteness, and incorruptibility are truly
missed by the ordinary people she championed and on
behalf of whom she spoke. Throughout the world, she
is remembered for her unwavering commitment to the
global environment and the most marginalized people,
particularly women. The loss of her strong voice and
accessible presence has left a huge gap, particularly
as nations and communities grapple with the realities
of a changing climate.
Origins: the essence of Wangari
In the wake of Wangari’s death, her family and friends
asked ourselves what aspects of Wangari we wanted
to remember and spotlight. The following emerged:
She was open and had time for everyone. She was
comfortable in the company of the great and good
as well as the impoverished and needy. You could find
Wangari dancing in the countryside with grassroots
women on one day and with some of the world’s most
inspiring and influential people on another. She believed
deeply in the power of one. She thought a values-based
society was a prerequisite for prosperity, and that
empowering women was a key to breaking the cycle
of poverty.
This is the dynamic energy that encompasses her joy and
enthusiasm, her affirming spirit, and her faith in individual
commitment and in genuine community that we wish the
WMM House to exemplify. We want people to be touched
by the passion that Wangari brought to everything she
did as if they had just met her and been embraced by her.
We want everyone who visits the WMM House to feel they
have become a better version of themselves; that they will
become more socially engaged, more compassionate, and
more dedicated to the public good. We want them to stretch
their capacities and for the House to provide them with the
inspiration and the tools to do so.
Too often in the course of her life, Wangari had to confront
those who would destroy our common home: the forests,
mountains, watersheds, and the Earth’s other ecosystems
on which we all depend.
The WMM House will showcase Wangari’s belief in the
importance of finding the courage to stand up for what is
right, public opinion notwithstanding. It will be dedicated
to improving the lives of others and the Earth as a whole,
undergirded by her recognition that, as she put it, “nature’s
wounds are our wounds.”
Who might come to the house?
It often proved very difficult to organize Wangari’s schedule;
she gave her phone number to presidents and farmers
alike, and was willing to talk with and learn from anyone
she came across.
The WMM House must reflect this deeply democratic spirit:
open to people of all abilities and from all walks of life,
citizens of Kenya or the world, who want to be motivated
by her life and work.
You might be a tourist on a trip to Kenya who wants to
know more about the Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner
and author of Unbowed: A Memoir. You might be a writer /
researcher on a scholarship seeking peace and inspiration
in a weeklong stay as you study Wangari’s life and legacy.
You might be laureates from the Nobel Women’s Initiative
gathering to celebrate and plan a new campaign. You might
be attending a seminar hosted by leaders of non-profits
advocating for girls’ education.
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