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NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Rockefeller Foundation announced today the winners of the 2012 Wangari Maathai Award for Civic Participation in Sustainability, an annual $10,000 cash scholarship awarded to two New York City public high school seniors. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120419/DC90109LOGO) The winners - Cecil Brooks, Jr., a student at South Bronx Preparatory School Academy, and Awa Sow, a student at Manhattan Comprehensive Night and...
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The African Women's Development Fund USA (AWDF USA) has launched the Mother Africa Campaign to raise awareness and support in the US for African women's organizations doing exemplary work but challenged by cuts in international donations during the recession. The national Campaign will debut with a Mother Africa Celebration highlighting the continent's art, food and music on September 13(th) from 6-8 PM at the Museum of the African...
NAIROBI, June 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A24 MEDIA is once again proud to announce another milestone in the CCTV FACES OF AFRICA series. Starting this Sunday, for four straight weeks, CCTV will air an A24 MEDIA-produced series on the life of South African activist/statesman/ President, Nelson Mandela. The weekly series airs Sundays at 1930 Central African time, 1730 GMT on CCTV News, which is seen across Africa and around the globe. They can also be seen on-line at...
NEBRASKA CITY, Neb., April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion's Project Plant It! is the recipient of a 2012 Arbor Day Award in honor of the program's outstanding contribution to tree planting, conservation and stewardship, the Arbor Day Foundation announced today. Project Plant It, a program developed by Dominion, one of the nation's largest producers and transporters of energy headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, is one of 16 individuals and organizations being recognized by the...
Leader of Yemen's Women Journalists Without Chains is NED Grantee WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is proud to congratulate Tawakkul Karman, leader of NED Grantee Women Journalists Without Chains, on winning the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. Karman was honored along with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to...
GENEVA, March 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- - Gateway to Africa is the first annual, international conference which will tackle pressing issues that Africa faces today through an integrative and multidimensional approach. It will bring together leaders of Africa with prominent featured speakers such as Mr. Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2007-2010); former Vice President, USA, Mr. Al Gore; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of The Green...
SXSW Film Festival announces the World Premiere of Building Hope, The Nobelity Project's new documentary about building Mahiga Hope High School in Kenya. Austin, TX (PRWEB) February 16, 2011 Filmmaker Turk Pipkin's promise to help build the first high school for a remote African community is a true story of Building Hope, the title of his latest film which debuts at the SXSW film festival on Friday, March 12 at the Rollins Theater with a repeat viewing on March 17 at the Arbor Cinema....
SAN FRANCISCO, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- PACT, an online underwear brand that blends design and sustainability with support for powerful social and environmental causes, today announced that it has partnered with the Green Belt Movement of Kenya and architect David Adjaye to create the newest print in its line of premium organic cotton underwear for men and women. To honor Earth Week and the debut of the new Green Belt-inspired print, from April 16 - 25, PACT will donate 100 percent of the...
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dr. Wangari Maathai join Shaklee as they offer Americans the opportunity to become eco entrepreneurs PLEASANTON, Calif., April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- In celebration of Earth Day, Shaklee Chairman and CEO, Roger Barnett was joined by special guests, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and 2004 Nobel Prize winner Dr. Wangari Maathai for the planting of Shaklee's millionth tree to commemorate the culmination of Shaklee's "A Million Trees. A Million Dreams(TM)"...
WASHINGTON, April 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai's new book, The Challenge for Africa, offers a powerful and compelling look at the severe and wide-ranging problems facing Africa, from Darfur to HIV/AIDS, massive debt to election fraud, cross-border conflicts to environmental degradation. At the Wilson Center on April 13 at 3 p.m., Maathai will discuss these roadblocks to Africa's development, including population pressures and enduring hunger; the...
