This week 28 Virgin Islands youths learned to use chopsticks while having dinner in Hong Kong with employees of the law firm Walkers Global.
Their 21-day journey will continue on to Malaysia before taking them to Singapore, where they will spend a week learning with students.
Portia Harrigan, director of eCamps BVI, said she started the programme in 2012 to familiarise VI youths with other cultures and develop global citizens who “think outside the box and beyond the shores of the BVI.”
“This year in particular we’re going to Asia primarily because we think that’s where the future is,” Ms. Harrigan said as the group prepared to leave from the Road Town ferry terminal on July 5.
She added that it is valuable for VI youths to see how the Chinese do business because the VI and many other Caribbean countries have relationships with China.
For full coverage see “From the Schools” in the July 17, 2014 edition.
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