Dec 8 2009
For the first time, students of the Senator Obama schools in Western Kenya have sent emails using solar energy to US President Barack Obama. Through their emails, the students insisted the President to highlight the importance of the usage of renewable energy at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. In their emails, they have requested President Obama to do something. They have also requested him to help other children all the over the world to access solar power.
The students also noted down that their teacher Ann has explained to them the connection of climate change to the drought in Kogelo village, and she has also told them that solar power is a solution to climate change. The students requested for help to protect the climate, as the future world is their future.
A drawing and a copy of the email was sent to the Greenhouse Solar Generation Youth Delegation in Copenhagen and this was passed on to the US ambassador in Denmark, with a request to inform the President. “We hope you can” were the concluding words of these emails as the students wished Obama a safe journey to Copenhagen.
The students through their emails informed President Obama that they can send him an email only because of the help of solar power. In their emails, the students made references to a few drawings of Mama Sarah Obama, President’s Obama’s grandmother and to a few drawings of solar panels that existed on the iron sheet roofs of the classrooms in the Senator Obama schools.
Students of the secondary level sent a separate email requesting the President to encourage the use of renewable energies that include solar power. They expressed their concern that students in other similar communities should also receive the same privilege to enjoy their education like those in Kogelo.
The Greenhouse SolarGeneration project installed the Solar Power in August 2009. The request from the students to the leaders from all over the world to promote the usage of solar power at the Copenhagen conference is a reminder for the immediate need of green energy. Global leaders should make an effort to fulfill the request from the students about the need of green energy at the Copenhagen conference.
Source: http://www.greenpeace.org/africa/