Children walk upto their President in superhero costumes for a cause.
When efforts from grown ups fail, you can always count on children. Especially when they are in superhero costumes. SANTIAGO, September 27, 2014 (AFP) - Around 2,000 people, many of them children dressed as superheroes, marched in Santiago Saturday calling on President Michelle Bachelet to protect Chile's glaciers.
Around two thousand children in superheros costumes and their families together with Greeen Peace activists marched toward La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile on September 27, 2014, to ask the government to create a law to protect the glaciers of southern Chile.AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI
The youngsters, some dressed as well-known comic book characters while others sported simple masks and capes, gathered at the foot of Santa Lucia, a hill in the center of the capital, to march to the La Moneda presidential palace. Some of the children delivered a letter to Ms Bachelet, urging her to help create a law to protect the Chilean glaciers."Bat-chelet: Use your super power," a sign carried by one girl read.
a child said, reading from the letter."We are here as superheroes asking the president to protect the glaciers,"
Children in superhero costumes. The placard reads "let's save the glaciers".AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI Greenpeace, the organization supporting environmental causes organized this event. Greenpeace says that there's law in Chile that protects the glaciers which are huge natural water reserves and support many ecosystems. Chilean glaciers cover approximately 23,000 square kilometers (8,800 square miles) and make up the country's largest water reserves.
Chile's glaciers constitute 82 percent of South America's glaciers.
