Kenyan Boys choir Moves Audiences Around the World

Members of the Kenyan Boys Choir are thrilling audiences worldwide with their rich, deep baritones interlaced with light, pure soprano notes. Formed over a decade ago, the choir gained global recognition when it performed at U.S. President Barack Obama’s inauguration early this year.
Today, they are practicing at the YMCA in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. They are singing a classic Kenyan song called Malaika, which means “angel” in the national language Kiswahili.
They consist of various ethnics such as Taita, Luhya, Kikuyu.
Their songs move me very much. The harmony is pure and beautiful. They dance also, the dance is very interesting.
They consider themselves to be ambassadors of Kenya abroad, a role they say they take seriously and joyfully. I think if the ambassadors like them exist all over the world, there are no conflicts and wars. That’s an excellent thing.

UN climate change conference 2009

U.N. officials, climate experts, environmental activists, and leaders of more than 100 nations gather in Copenhagen, Denmark for a two-week conference of climate change beginning 7 December.
The participants will try to reach a new international accord on reducing greenhouse gas emissions that would replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. But, questions remain about how much can be achieved and how any agreement would be implemented.
In this conference, there are many developing countries voices of resistance which claim diminution of CO2 causes their economics broken. But I think the most important point is subsistence of human beings and the earth. So, the developed countries should assist developing countries on the fields of economy, environment and so on, and should try to develop the technology of energy which does not exhaust CO2.

Young Women Juggle Motherhood, College

Sherrill Mosee was raised by a single mother who was forced to give up her dream of going to college. Mosee says, “My mother was a teenage mother at the age of 16. She worked really hard while she was in high school to go to college. She was accepted at Penn State University in Pennsylvania. When she showed the college acceptance letter to her mother, my grandmother, looked at her and said, ‘You’re not going anywhere. Your college education is standing right in front of you,’ talking about my brother.”
She thought about value of an education when her stepdaughter became pregnant during her first year in college. “For years, there was a decline in teen pregnancy, I believe between 1991and about 2005. Then in 2006, there was this sharp increase. So there were almost about half a million teens who become pregnant in the United States. Statistics tell us that less than half, about 40 percent of teenage mothers will graduate high school. So, when you think about that, without an education they are unable to care for their family.” she says. Mosee helped her stepdaughter complete her education and in 1998, she created Family Care Solutions, a non-profit group that helps low-income single women pay for childcare so they can attend school.
I think this is difficult problem. It is no easy task to taking care of children with going to college or other school. Not only NPO or NGO like Mosee created, but government should help single mother of teenage. But the most important thing I think is to think about own livelihood and taking care of children before pregnant.

UN says Reducing Disaster Risks Helps Climate Change Adaptation

The United nation says reducing risks from weather-related disasters such as flood and droughts can help nations adapt to climate change. Scientists predict global warming will lead to more intense and frequent extreme weather such as storms, high rainfalls, floods, droughts and heat waves.
Margareta Washlstrom, special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, says nations will make a serious error if they do not take urgent action. According to her saying, at least 70 percent of natural disasters are created by climate and weather. If nothing is done about global warming, the agricultural output in many countries would drop.
Nowadays, the all part of the world is suffering from global warming. For example, in North America, scientists predict riding temperatures will further reduce mountain snow and increase evaporation, changing the seasonal availability of water.
I think there is much water in Japan, we are living. But wasting too much water causes our future lack of water. And I feel very sorry for other countries which are suffering from poverty of water. So I think we should save water for our life and other poor-water countries.