Feliciano dos Santos
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Feliciano dos Santos is a Mozambican musician and environmentalist
, hailing from the Niassa Province
. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize
in 2008, for his use of music to promote the need of improving water and sanitation infrastructure in the Niassa region.
Environmentalist
An environmentalist broadly supports the goals of the environmental movement, "a political and ethical movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human activities"...
, hailing from the Niassa Province
Niassa Province
Niassa is a province of Mozambique. It has an area of 129,056 km² and a population of 1.027.037 . It is the most sparsely populated province in the country. Lichinga is the capital of the province. There are a minimum estimated 450,000 Yao people living in Mozambique...
. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize
Goldman Environmental Prize
The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists, one from each of the world's six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. The prize includes a no-strings-attached award of...
in 2008, for his use of music to promote the need of improving water and sanitation infrastructure in the Niassa region.