Renny Bijoux

Renny Bijoux is 30 years old and a youth ambassador from the Seychelles. He has just begun his second term as chairman of the youth wing of the ruling Lepep Party, and is also a Manager of Application at a local company. He graduated the best of his class in BSc Computer information systems; he now waits to start his master course in September 2013. Renny is a former athlete and an Indian Ocean island games silver-medal-winning triple jumper. He is a tenor in the Mahe Chamber Choir (MCC). Renny is popularly known as ‘Kastor’, a stage name he got while acting the main role in a musical play that traces slavery and how the first Seychellois was born in the early 19th century, performed by MCC. He is passionate about technology, cars and of course the environment. He believes that to protect our future and our further development we must also protect the globe we live on. He speaks Creole, English, French and Russian. He believes that going to the North Pole to stand on top of the world and support this Greenpeace battle is surely a quest worth fulfilling for his country and the world.