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Greenpeace: Kenya's Obama Schools e-mail President Obama on Climate Change

Greenpeace: Kenya's Obama Schools e-mail President Obama on Climate Change
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Kogelo, Kenya/Copenhagen, Denmark (ots)

- Indication: Picture can be downloaded free of charge under:
     http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100001640/?langid=2 -
Pupils and students of the Senator Obama schools in Western Kenya 
have sent their first emails using solar energy to US President 
Barack Obama. They urge him to put his weight behind renewable energy
in the run-up to Copenhagen which is just days away. A copy of the 
mail and a drawing was sent to the Greenpeace Solar Generation Youth 
delegation in Copenhagen who handed it over to the US ambassador in 
Denmark asking him to inform Obama when he will be his host.
The excited Kenyan pupils sent a strong message; "Please President
Obama do something. We just want to ask you to help other children 
all the over the world access solar power. Teacher Ann sees 
connection of climate change and the drought in Kogelo village and 
said that solar power is a solution to climate change. Help protect 
the climate, this is our future."
Making reference to some of the drawings of solar panels sitting 
at the old iron sheet roofs of their classrooms and those of Mama 
Sarah Obama, the grandmother of the US president, the pupils informed
him that hadn't it been for solar power, they would have never 
afforded to reach him through email. Their counterparts at secondary 
level in a separate email made a simple request asking him to use his
"great office to encourage the utilization of renewable energies such
as solar power," they said. "We want other students in communities 
similar to ours to be able to enjoy their education like we do here 
in Kogelo."
The Solar Power was installed by Greenpeace SolarGeneration 
project in August 2009. The ability to call on world leaders to 
protect the environment by such under privileged children who had 
never seen a computer until later this year is a reminder to world 
leaders ahead of the UN Climate summit that the world needs greener 
energies and this is their moment to make the breakthrough that they 
have promised on climate change. Bidding Obama a safe trip to 
Copenhagen, the students ended with "We hope you can".
Pictures: http://www.greenpeace.ch/de/presse/pressebilder/
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19IVrm_Ku-o

Contact:

Fiona Musana
Communications Director
Greenpeace Africa
Tel.: +27/79-512-9381
E-Mail: fmusana@greenpeace.org

Joshiah Ramogi
Project Coordinator
Greenpeace Switzerland
Mobile: +41/79/815'23'22
E-Mail: Buero.Bern@ch.greenpeace.org