Thursday, May 1, 2008

Earth Day

Indonesia has the most biodiversity of any country in the world. We see it as critically important that we encourage Indonesians to take care of this amazing natural environment. The embassy is always working on environment protection issues, but for Earth Day we invited a group of about 80 kids from around Jakarta to come to the embassy.

Each group of kids painted a mural about the environment and then presented them to the embassy to be displayed on our outer wall. It was also a day of fun and games that included Hillary teaching the kids Simon Says and me organizing a soccer game with coaches from Arsenal's training academy(!) The kids were even treated to a live performance by their neighbors from Jalan Sesame (Sesame Street) that featured an orangutan talking about his home in Kalimantan.

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