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.