Youths to participate in exchange programme in Barbados
In completion of an exchange programme cycle which began in March of this year when a team of 25 youngsters from the Haynesville Youth Club in Barbados visited Guyana, a group of nine from the Volunteer Support Platform (VSP) left for Barbados to participate in the Guyana/Barbados Youth Exchange Programme
Volunteers preparing to travel to Barbados
2016.
According to a release issued, this initiative was conceptualised at the Head of States meeting of the Third Guyana-Barbados Joint Commission in October 2015. It was there that the importance of strengthening the regional relationship and integration between Guyana and Barbados in the areas of youth development, culture and agriculture were highlighted.
The group, while in Barbados, is expected to participate in workshops designed to strengthen and create new approaches to entrepreneurship, through cultural establishment while building the capacity of young people in order to help create employment and business opportunities.
Additionally, the workshop will also focus on building capacity in small business management techniques relative to agriculture, foster sustained youth involvement at national and regional levels through civic engagement and leadership and impart skills and knowledge in the areas of up cycling, recycling and economising in the creation and promotion of craft.
The Guyanese contingent is expected home on June 19.
