Wangari Maathai (award) the Noble Prize in 2004. She (praise) by the Noble committee as a source of inspiration for everyone in Africa fighting for sustainable development, democracy and peace. When she started the Green Belt movement in 1977, Kenya was suffering from deforestation and desertification. Thousands of tree (cut down) and many family (leave) in poverty as a result. Since then, her most successful campaign to mobilize women to plant some 30 million trees (copy) by others countries. During that time, the movement (transform) into a campaign on education, nutrition and other issues. Her campaign has not always been popular, Mrs. Maathai . (arrest) several times for campaigning against deforestation in Africa, and once she .. (beat) unconscious by the heavy handed people. But in elections in 2002, she . (elect) as an MP as part of an opposition coalition which swept to power, and she (appoint) as a deputy environment minister in 2003.