As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
Jane had 1 child with Hugo Van Lawick.
Jane was once married to Hugo Van Lawick.
Jane wrote The Eagle and the Wren.
Jane wrote Rickie and Henri: A True Story.
Jane worked at the museam in Nairobi, Kenya.
Jane Goodall went to Kenya at the age of 23, where she first heard of Dr. Louis Leakey.
Jane is the founder of the 'Jane Goodall Institute'.
She is the world's foremost authority on all things chimpanzee.
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