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Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya)

LC control no.n 87932671
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Corporate name headingGreen Belt Movement (Society : Kenya)
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Variant(s)GBM
Mouvement de la ceinture verte
Beginning date1977
Associated countryKenya
Field of activityReforestation Tree planting Forest conservation--Citizen participation
AffiliationNational Council of Women of Kenya
Found inMaathai, W. The Green Belt Movement, 1985?: p. 75 (registered as Kenyan society in 3/84)
NCCK/GBM/ICCRE Seminar on the Churches Forum on Environment and Development, 1992.
The Green Belt Movement website, viewed Oct. 9, 2013: Our history (The Green Belt Movement (GBM) was founded by Wandari Maathai in 1977 under the auspices of the National Council of Women of Kenya (NCWK))
Wangari Maathai, c2011: p. 22 ("Mouvement de la ceinture verte", begun by Maathai in 1977)
Green Belt Movement, 1988?: title page (The Green Belt Movement) page 4 of cover (The Green Belt Movement, a project founded by the National Council of Women of Kenya)