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Connect4Climate Photo/Video 2011 Competition Winners: Forests

Winners: Forest, 13-17 years old

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Winners: Forest, 18-24 years old

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<p><strong>1st place in the 18-24 age category: Regrowth: The New and the Old </strong>- Serah kimundu, Kenya</p>

<p>This picture was taken at the edge of the Aberdare ranges (see background). This was originally part of the vast Aberdare forest found in the Central part of Kenya.  The residents who cut the trees for firewood and farmland have diminished the forest. The picture shows the old original trees and the newly planted trees that have been planted to revamp the forest. The brown  ‘soil’ is actually sawdust that was accumulated from all the cutting of the trees. This has affected the climate as the weather and seasons have now become unpredictable thus affecting the farming in the area. Solutions have indeed been found as you can see in the picture as new trees are being planted. The Kenya forestry also prosecute and fine residents found destroying the forest.</p>

<p><strong>2nd place in the 18-24 age category: A tree planted is a boost </strong>- Dan Njiena, Cameroon</p>

<p>Answer the question of how climate change affects our lives, those of our friends in our community? It first become aware, it is first noted that climate change is primarily caused by a disorder coportementale and the expansionist desires of humans are increasing day by day 's This is why we can notice that all ls damage it causes are pollution, massive deforestation, desert encroachment, scarcity of drinking water and pout in the world is made up to 97% water and that is why it is not the safe from natural disasters.<br />
However, admittedly some young Africans have begun to wake up and last vaccances school, they each planted a tree not far from the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium in Yaounde Omnipsorts in Cameroon sotien NGO Mi-plus and the Ministry Sports. they realized that a tree planted is a boost that is given to the fight against global warming, desertification, an abundance of drinking water and less than ene disaster.</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>*View this video by 2nd place winner by Dan Njiena regarding his photo submission</strong></p>

<p>[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZq71tALAL0]</p>

<p><strong>3rd place Greening schools campaign by Rose Yvonne, Kenya</strong></p>

<p>There is a huge gap in our knowledge on the impact of climate change in East Africa. Deforestation is not treated as a major cause of the change in climate,whether its because of ignorance or poverty that makes us only think of how to burn charcoal to provide for our families; their is an urgent need to let people know of the dangers behind their actions. The impacts are being felt all over the country from severe droughts leading to loss of lives to floods destroying what we hoped would be bumper harvests.  The only best way to ensure that we escape from such calamities would be to educate and encourage students of all ages to be  involved in the campaign against deforestation, as trees whether we would like to admit it or not are the surest answer to a safer world .If they embrace the attitude early in life, it would be the best pass to a greener and a more climate friendly future.</p>

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Winners: Forest 25-35 years old

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<p><strong>1st place in the 25-35 age category: Palm trees grave - </strong>Adil Moumane, Morocco</p>

<div>A field in Draa Palme Grove (Zagora-Morocco) was destructed by fusaruim disease, drought, and sand encroachment, and has become a mass Grave for palme trees, so we sound the alarm to protect this environmental heritage from extinction.</div>

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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>*View this video by 1st place winner Adil Moumane regarding his photo submission</strong></div>

<div>[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJa352URucI]</div>

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<p><strong>2nd place in the 25-35 age category:</strong> <strong>Alsunut Forest </strong>- Ala Kheir, Sudan</p>

<div>It is the last forest in Khartoum,  located on the white Nile  not far from the city centre, it is home for many birds and monkeys it is a nice place that people spend their evenings at watching the sun go down. The forest now is disappearing, as people started cutting trees on one end, and the plastic wastes are contaminating most of it.Those were the main reasons killing this forest. Now the worst have come, the government sold Alsunut forest to a business man who is planning to transform it to a private park and a golf yard “which means cutting down most of those trees”</div>

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<p><strong>3rd place in the 25-35 age category:</strong> <strong>Forest </strong>- David Mbuthia Mwangi, Kenya</p>

<div>Illegal logging reduces chances of natures surviving.</div>

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<div><strong>*View this video from 3rd place winner David Mbuthia Mwangi regarding his photo submission</strong></div>

<div style="text-align: left;">[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km9Bmi_zRIA]</div>
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Connect4Climate Photo/Video Competition 2011 Winners: Energy

1st place winner 13-17 age category

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1st place winner 18-24 age category

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<p><strong>Solar Panels, The Sunny Energy – Dina Osman – South Africa </strong></p>

<p>Most of these houses are low cost housing and some are government provided homes yet almost all of them have solar panels fitted on their roofs. Initiatives like this are great not only in providing electricity for the people but doing it in a sustainable manner. Projects like this should be spread all over and governments should encourages the people into adopting sustainable ways of generating electricity.</p>

<p><strong>2nd place winner 18-24 age category</strong></p>

<p><strong>Improved Cooking Stoves – Alphonse Karenzi –Rwanda </strong></p>

<p>This stove is easily made from local materials. It surely saves up to 85% of firewood compared to traditional stoves and reduces smoke emission significantly.</p>

<p><strong>3rd place winner 18-24 age category</strong></p>

<p><strong>Tire burning for cooking – Malawi - Violet Mojo</strong></p>

<p>A lack of access to clean household energy in developing countries forces more than a third of humanity-2.4 billion people to cook and heat their homes by burning wood, dung and crop waste.The families face an impossible dilemma: cook with solid fuels and suffer health consequences or go without uncooked meal. Despite this, smoke claim the lives of nearly 800,000 children each year and emit gases into the atmosphere contributing to climate change and global warming. Thus the need for sustained and environmental friendly energy sources</p>

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1st place winner 25-35 age category

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<p><strong>Energy in Rwanda – Teddy Kinyanjui – Kenya - </strong><br />
Pilot testing chrocal briquette making out of papryus and peat for the min.of energy in Rwanda.</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>*Watch this video from 1st place winner Teddy Kinyanjui speak about his photo submission</strong></em></p>

<p>[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMkcDggK4UY]</p>

<p><strong>2nd place winner 25-35 age category</strong></p>

<p><strong>Claystoves - Use Less Firewood and Conserve Energy! - Asimenyekyala Nthakomwa – Malawi -</strong> <br />
Claystoves are one efficient energy saving technology that should be promoted if we are to promote sustainable use of forest resources. One woman testified to using the same bundle of firewood for two weeks with a claystove while she could use it for a week when she was using the three stone traditional stove method which is common in rural communities. Lets us empower the women who are the ones mostly fetching firewood for the homes by training them in claystove making which they can also use as an income generating activity.</p>

<p><strong>3rd place winner 25-35 age category</strong></p>

<p><strong>I Prefer My Horse – Azzedine Jamal – Morocco -</strong> <a href="mailto:contact@azzedinejamal.com">contact@azzedinejamal.com</a><br />
A nomad in the desert preferred to abandon his car to return to the horse: ”gasoline? is too expensive,” he said.</p>

Connect4Climate Photo/Video Competition 2011 Winners: Agriculture

Winners: Agriculture, 13-17 years old

1st Place in the 13-17 age category

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Winners: Agriculture, 18-24 years old

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<p><strong>1st place in the 18-24 age category</strong></p>

<p><strong>Fertility Countdown</strong> - Mohamed Samad – Egypt - This relatively remote piece of Egyptian fertile land used for agriculture is threatened by Air pollution, urbanization and desertification as a result of climate change</p>

<p><strong>2nd place in the 18-24 age category</strong></p>

<p><strong>One Hen Campaign Project - James Makini – Kenya - </strong></p>

<p>A photo I took from the field where we train farmers on agribusiness, environmental conservation,entrepreneurship and value chain analysis from a practical perspective, whereby each member is given a hen and a cage as a loan (One Hen Campaign Project) and after 6 months they surrender 2 chicks (once) to the programme for onward lending to other groups and sustainability of the programme.</p>

<p><strong>*Watch this video from 2nd place winner James Makini explaining the importance of his photo</strong></p>

<p>[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6cN_1fTlno]</p>

<p>On Environmental conservation, IEP has come up with a very innovative way of training the youth and women to desist from using traditional cages that consume a lot of trees and instead use a modern cage covered with a wire mesh hence saving trees. From the hens droppings we train youth and women how to make composite manure which is organic and helps them conserve the soil that has been depleted by use of chemical fertilizers.</p>

<p><strong>3rd place in the 18-24 age category</strong></p>

<p><strong>The Golden Island - Andrew A. Shenouda – Egypt </strong></p>

<p>Gezieret el Dahab or The Golden Island is an agricultural area located near downtown Cairo. Although it's isolated to some extend from Cairo Noise, it was threatened one day to swept and change to a business district.</p>

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Winners: Agriculture, 25-35 years old

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<p><strong>1st place in the 25-35 age category</strong></p>

<p><strong>Forest For Gardening - Kisakye Mayanja- Uganda - </strong><br />
This picture, taken in Kiboga district shows a woodland turned into an agricultural field. Agricultural land is diminishing as a result of population explosion in many areas of the world, but, in this region of Uganda, encroachment is caused by soils that have been over cultivated. Farmers there try to seek better soils from forested land, they burn fell the trees before cultivating. The ferttile soils in the forests can easily leach and will soon lose fertility, leading to further encroachment and change in the micro climate of such a place.</p>

<p><strong>2nd place in the 25-35 age category</strong></p>

<p><strong>Madagascar, Inland, father and son posing in front of rice fields. Stephanie Rabemiafara – Madagascar -</strong></p>

<p>Traditional farming methods vary from one ethnic group or location to another, according to population density, climate, water supply, and The most intensive form of cultivation is practiced among theBetsileo and Merina groups of the central highlands, where population densities are the highest. At the other extreme are the extensive slash-and-burn methods of brush clearing and shifting cultivationin the south and the east. The price of rice, the staple food in Madagascar, has doubled in the past two years, forcing residents in the capital, Antananarivo, to halve their consumption.</p>

<p><strong>3rd place in the 25-35 age category</strong></p>

<p><strong>Cattle Farmer from Paua – Brice Blondel – France - </strong></p>

<p>Paoua, in the North Ouest of the Central African Republic is subjected to chronic insecurity. People regularly have to flee the town to hide in the bush for weeks, sometimes months, in order to avoid being attacked by rebels or bandits.Not many people are able to save cattle, which is often stolen by armed men. This man's house was partly destroyed, as were many others in his neighbourhood, but he still owned that one cow. It is him who came to me and ask that I take his picture.</p>

<p><strong>*Watch this video from 3rd place winner Brice Blondel explaining the importance of his photo</strong></p>

<p>[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwScvXgfnpI]</p>

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A Changing World by Stephon Gabriel

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C4C Photo/Video Competition winners begin to receive their prizes

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#Action4Climate showing every 15 minutes

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Find the projection in Times Square

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<h2 style="text-align: center;">What's your #Action4Climate?</h2>

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Share your photos #action4climate

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<h2 style="text-align: center;">#Action4Climate</h2>