Kenyan school children e-mail U.S. President on climate change

    In the email, the pupils said, "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."

    The students emphasized that renewable energy will help in solving the problem of climate change which is affecting Kenya and other countries.

    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 U.S. 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 a secondary school 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".

    The solar power system was installed by Greenpeace Solar Generation project in August. The two schools -- Senator Obama Nyangoma Primary School and Secondary School -- are in Kogelo village, a stone's throw away from Obama's grandmother's house.

    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 Change summit that the world needs greener energies and this is their moment to make the breakthrough that they have promised on climate change, Kazinform cites Xinhua See www.chinaview.cn for full version.