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Malaria is manageable Every year, millions of passengers board KLM fl ights with a burning desire to discover new lands. Unfortunately, these countries can also be home to children in need – a need outlined in the UN Millennium Development Goals. KLM AirCares offers promotional, logistical and fi nancial support to NGOs to help them achieve these goals. One of these organisations is Malaria No More! a Dutch foundation that contributes towards the prevention and treatment of malaria, especially in Africa. NET GAINS FROM MALARIA NO MORE! In Tanzania, Malaria No More! is supporting FAME, the Foundation for African Medicine and Education. FAME works with like-minded partners to bring quality health care to Karatu, an area in northern Tanzania where malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoearelated diseases are the main cause of death among children younger than fi ve. To donate money and/or Flying Blue Miles to this or any other AirCares charity, please visit www. aircares.nl or make a donation during this fl ight (see the last page of our shopping section in this issue). If you would like more information on Malaria No More!, please visit www.malarianomore.eu Botanical illustration (1796) of Camelina sativa, a feedstock plant currently being researched for use as a bio fuel Fuelling the future KLM has been a pioneer in the he research and development of f alternative fuels. It recently successfully trialled a passenger er fl ight powered partly by a bio fuel manufactured from the camelina a plant, and is working closely with third-party rty research and technological institutes titutes to investigate what further fuel options ptions are available. At the infl uential World Bio Fuels Markets Conference, held in Amsterdam msterdam earlier this year, Jan Ernst de Groot, root, Managing Director KLM, passionately nately outlined what he thinks should be done within the aviation industry to pursue the development – and ultimate usage age – of bio fuels. “Reducing our carbon footprint rint will not be realised solely by the implementation of cost-based measures like emissions trading g schemes,” says De Groot. “A lot t has already been achieved through h effi ciency measures, but this has as to go hand in hand with technological al advancement. To make the use e of sustainable bio fuels a real possibility, sibility, this alternative technology has to be set in motion. KLM has already taken en action Banding together Funk for Life, a project set up by Swedish jazz trombonist Nils Landgren, his band Funk Unit, and the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières, provides musical instruments for the inhabitants of Kibera, a slum area near Nairobi, Kenya, and raises funds for the construction of a local clinic. You can read more about this inspiring initiative in our next (June) issue. Meanwhile, discover all about Funk for Life on www.funkforlife-contest.com KLM PEOPLE & PLANET by ssetting up a consortium that will not only conduct research into alternative fuel fuels but will also develop them and – ultim ultimately – start their production. “Th “This is a huge ‘energy transition’ that deman demands a multi-party, multi-track approa approach. There are a lot of parties which need to get involved – governments, supplie suppliers, scientists –to name only a few. “It is is also vitally important that we conside consider the sustainability of manufa manufacturing bio fuels. There should be no neg negative knock-on effects for food chains, biodiversity or any other ecolog ecological consideration. To this end, we work very v closely with the World Wide Fund for Nature in The Netherlands, who super supervises the strict sustainability criteria applie applied to the eventual feedstock we will use fo for our bio fuels.” Joh Johan van de Gronden, Director of the Wo World Wide Fund for Nature in The Ne Netherlands, endorses this view: “KLM is oon the right track with its bio fuels policy policy. We realise the importance of researc researching different feedstocks for the man manufacture of bio fuels, but we must be careful that these processes don’t in interfere with any existing food cchains and nature.” NILS LANDGREN STRIKES A CHORD IN AFRICA Holland Herald TRAVELLERS CHECK 89
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