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Wangari Maathai planted 51 million trees.
She didn't start with a plan to save Kenya's forests. She started by giving seeds to women in her neighborhood to plant in their backyards. Each seed cost almost nothing. By the time she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, those backyard gardens had become a national movement.
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What did she actually do? ↓
She paid women a tiny amount per tree they planted and tended. The Green Belt Movement grew to hundreds of thousands of women — and changed Kenya's landscape forever.
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If you started a tiny project today and kept doing it for 30 years, what could it become?