Kenyan national Wangari Maathai won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in the Green Belt Movement, an organization that engages in tree-planting activities and environment conservation.
VOA: standard.2010.02.24
For the past seven years, Freyer and her organization have been delivering tree saplings and agricultural training to rural villagers in 13 provinces across Afghanistan.
For every sapling GPFA delivers to a farmer, she (or he) must pay the organization back with a cutting once the tree is strong and healthy enough to produce cuttings.