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Zeinab Mokalled

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Zeinab Mokalled (born 1936 in Jarjouh) is a Lebanese environmental activist.

She earned a teacher's certificate. She taught at the Al-Musaytbeh School and the Arabsalim Public School.[1]

She founded the NGO Nedaa Al-Ard ('the call of the Earth'), to do Trash collection and recycling, when the municipal government failed.[2][3][4] She organized composting with assistance from the United Nations Development Program's "Environmentally Friendly Ideas" project.[5] Her movement became a model for Lebanon.[6]

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  1. ^ جابر, كامل. "زينب مقلّد معلّمة عربصاليم الأولى". الخيام | khiyam.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 2022-04-28.
  2. ^ "This 81 Year Old Woman With a PHD and An All Female Rubbish Collection Service Is An Inspiration". www.radionisaa.ps. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
  3. ^ "The 81-year-old woman inspiring a nation to recycle". BBC News. 2017-06-08. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
  4. ^ "The women tackling Lebanon's rubbish problem". BBC News. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
  5. ^ بولكعيبات, أحلام; بولكعيبات, إدريس (2021). "التربية الإعلامية:, من مشروع دفاع إلى مشروع تمكين". مجلة العلوم الإنسانية: 203. doi:10.34174/0079-032-001-013. S2CID 244340911.
  6. ^ "Five leading environmentalists we are proud to have them in MENA". Greenpeace MENA. Retrieved 2022-04-28.