14 November 2009 / TODAY’S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
A World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) project aims to give children a voice at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) meetings in Copenhagen in December. Organized as part of the WWF’s Earth Hour campaign, the “Lanterns to Brighten the Future” project invites children to download paper lantern designs from www.wwf.org.tr.
The idea is for children to draw pictures on the lanterns of the kind of world they want to have in the future and send them to their local WWF office. WWF-Turkey is running the campaign in this country, but children from all over the world are expected to participate through the activities of other WWF branches. Families whose children are participating in the project have noted that it is a unique way to encourage environmental awareness in young people, a WWF press release this week said. Submissions to the WWF-Turkey office must be received by Nov. 25; thousands of submissions have been received by WWF offices worldwide already.“The leaders who will make decisions regarding the planet’s future at Copenhagen must take notice of the expectations they’ll see exhibited by these lanterns. For these lanterns represent the world that children want us to leave behind for them,” WWF-Turkey head Filiz Demirayak said in the statement.
