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Earth Hour is just 60 minutes. It's for the benefit of our Mother Earth

Hundreds of youth and community members joined SynergY at DEWA, under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, during the event held in partnership with Dubai Supreme Council of Energy (DSCE) and Emirates Wildlife Society (EWS) which works in association with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and in cooperation with Dubai Properties Group to observe Earth Hour 2015 in Dubai UAE.  The event took place at Bay Avenue Park, overlooking the mighty Burj Khalifa at Downtown Dubai.

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has achieved an impressive reduction in electricity use of 305 MWh and a reduction of 183 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions during Earth Hour 2015 in Dubai. This is an increase of 20 percent compared to last year, when DEWA recorded savings of 255 MWh of electricity and 153 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.

We witnessed as sponsor & partner as DEWA marked Earth Hour 2015 by displaying the worlds largest infinity mirror, measuring 7 square meters. Dubai represented by DEWA broke a new world record that was registered in the Guinness Book of Records. An infinity mirror is a set of mirrors that reflect an image back in a recursive manner, creating a series of smaller reflections that recede into an infinite distance. This infinity mirror communicates DEWAs message that its efforts are infinite.

SynergY youth group with its team of nearly hundred youngsters participated in Earth Hour event and many children volunteered for days planning and were present organising and setting up a beautiful booth since the afternoon to support and manage key interactive areas at the booth that was designed to bring people from all corners of the UAE together to conserve energy as part of the global initiative and encourage people to be more environmentally conscious.

Our very inspiring and interactive booth had games, photo and message opportunity for families, youth and children, also promoted the need for environmental education and through the Wall of Expression, Pledge Bubble, Poloroid?s to take away with emojis props and Selfie Stars.  Thousands of people visited the booth set up by SynergY especially for Earth Hour 2015.  The Best moment of our eventful community service day was being able to take a Group Selfie on stage with Ms. Khawla Al Mehairi, Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Communications, Amal Koshak, Senior Manager of Marketing Communications at DEWA and this makes it a hat-trick of receiving this recognition third year in a row.   

Earth Hour is a family event now. It's great to see so many families visit our booth that saw a rise from few hundreds to many thousands this year.  We are thankful to DEWA for awarding us recognition on stage, allowing several student to experience laying down candles, lighting them with VIP S and above all inviting us as Sponsors each passing year.  It means a lot when the entire community moves towards Sustainability

SynergY Youth Group has once again passionately conveyed the message that, how much events like Earth Hour mean to the generation today

Earth Hour is one of the biggest environmental campaigns.  Introduced in 2007 in Sydney with 2.2 million people switching off their lights and other non-essential electronics, Earth Hour 2015 is the ninth year of the campaign.

If You find this work inspiring and wish that you could join us too in UAE then please Connect www.facebook.com/CosmoFoundationYouth 

National News Papers Gulf Today and Khaleej Times have featured messages and photos from synergy members Karthik, Vijaya and Nikita and me too. Also my eco friend Rohan tells his story in Gulf Today Check it out on-line Link-

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17247172/DW1-i07/index.html#p=17

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/mobile/inside.asp?xfile=/data/nationgeneral/2015/March/nationgeneral_March312.xml&section=nationgeneral

http://gulftoday.ae/portal/c63cbb5a-e043-47f5-80d2-9d5e02219b29.aspx

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