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LOCAL Friday 21 January 2022

AAA’s Wings of Hope Energy Champion Competition Winner:

Official Hand-over of solar panels to Colegio Cristo Rey

ORANJESTAD - Aruba Air- Colegio Cristo Rey was of- workgroup represented by
port Authority N.V.’s (AAA) ficially announced as the AAA’s Armand Kelly, Chris-
“Wings of Hope” (WoH) of- winner back in 2021 of the tine Kaarsbaan-Leo, Keyli
ficially hands-over solar 1st ever Energy Champion Vrolijk, Selkys Winterdaal
panels to Colegio Cristo Competition and received and Angeline Flemming,
Rey as the winner of the AWG 20,000.00 to execute Colegio Cristo Rey’s team
1st ever Energy Champion their energy reduction and Ms. Baly from SKOA,
Competition. plan which included the the solar panels were of-
installation of solar panels. ficially handed over. With
As part of WoHs Affordable In the presence of AAA’s this installation, Colegio
and Clean Energy Goal, CEO Joost Meijs, WoH Cristo Rey is looking to-
wards reducing their yearly
energy consumption by
20%.

WoH’s competition was
also held to raise aware-
ness and spark curios-
ity among students and
teachers on sustainable
initiatives. After a success-
ful 1st competition, WoH is
proud to announce that
there will be a second
competition focused on
United Nations’ 17 Sustain-
able Development Goals
(SDGs). This year’s competi-
tion will be open for primary
and secondary schools to
participate in, where each
school will need to present
their sustainable plan by
choosing one or more of
the SDGs as their goal. The
winner of this year’s com-
petition will receive AWG
20,000.00 to execute their
sustainable plan.

WoH looks forward to con-
tinue including students
and the Aruban Communi-
ty in projects, and in doing
so creating awareness on
the importance of sustain-
able practices whilst en-
couraging all to embrace
changes that create a bet-
ter and more sustainable
future for all.q