Action star
Jet Li has blogged about an exciting new initiative he is involved in with former British prime minister
Tony Blair.
“Yesterday, I visited Guiyang, China with Former Prime Minister TonyBlair to announce our “Thousand Villages Project” that focuses onchanging the way electricity is consumed in China and the world bytaking people off the electrical grid and switching them to solarpower,“ wrote Li. "In addition to using renewal power, switchinglighting not only in the household but also in buildings andstreetlamps to LED takes less power to uselonger. That’s like doing three simple things at once to make sure thenext generation can see blue skies more often.
“Tony told me that in Britain, driving electrical cars and using renewal power has already become the norm.
“Over the past two years, each progressive step that the
One Foundationhas taken in helping with public welfare matters or charity relatedwork often makes me very excited. I’m always touched when I see evenmore people join hand-in-hand with the One Foundation and launching aproject together because of an idea, because they identify with us, andbecause they care about our society. This kind of feeling totallyexceeds the satisfied feeling of that I get after completing a film.
“If you don’t take the small steps, how will you walk a thousandmiles; the progress of public welfare and charity related work dependsprecisely on every little matter that might not be of any interest.
“Yesterday, the Climate Group and the One Foundation jointly launched the “Solar-powered LEDLighting the Thousand Villages Project”. This is the firstcollaborative project between the Climate Group and the One Foundationsince signing a cooperative strategy memorandum agreement in March ofthis year.
“I’d like to ask everyone a very simple question – have you everexperienced a power-cut before? Or maybe try to imagine, what would youdo if you had no power at night? How much would it affect yourlifestyle and the way you live? What I want to say is, there are a lotof people living right next to us – in rural villages throughout China,in India, in Africa – they live in an environment with no electricityor power sources.
“Luckily, this kind of phenomenon is in the process of changing.Yesterday, I represented the One Foundation and together with one ofthe co-founders of the Climate Group, former British Prime Minister Mr.Tony Blair, we jointly launched the “Solar-powered LEDLighting the Thousand Villages Project”. We also visited BaigongVillage in Dang Wuxiang of Huaxi district, Guaiyang. This village isalso our first illustrative example for the Thousand Village Project.The time frame set for the Solar-powered LEDLighting the Thousand Villages Project is five years. The project willinvolve 400 villages around China in the first two years. In the nextthree years to follow, the project will expand to over 600 villageswithin countries including China, India and Africa.
“Let’s take action together! I hope that everyone in our OneFoundation family will be proud of the One Foundation for takinganother progressive step!“
http://www.looktothestars.org/news/3007-jet-li-launches-thousand-villages-project
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