Young persons participate in video conference ahead of Homecoming 2010

Thursday, January 14, 2010 – Young Saint Lucians at home and abroad will soon be provided with a special platform for self expression as part of Homecoming 2010 activities.

Last year, the Homecoming committee expressed its intention to have young people integrally involved in this nationally significant occasion.

As such the announcement of an upcoming youth summit, as an avenue for youth participation, was made at the press launch of Nobel Laureate Week on January 6.

The announcement was made by the committee's secretary Miss Paula James.

“One of the activities planned during the homecoming week is a youth summit. Preceding the summit, we have decided to host a youth video conference. The reason for so doing is to try to get the youth in the Diaspora to get involved in the governance of Saint Lucia. We have a number of young persons all over the world who really are not feeling that they are part of 'home” or belonging to Saint Lucia because of the different culture we live in.” Ms. James said.

The topic of the video conference scheduled for January 18, will be centred on the governance of Saint Lucia and the role young people can Saint Lucia can play in the country's development.

“On that day we are going to be using the UWI Open Campus Video Conference Centre where we will have youth participating in the live teleconference from Toronto, Canada, New York, Miami, Texas, Connecticut, Atlanta, Tortola, Trinidad, Jamaica, and Barbados. We have also contacted the three University of the West Indies' (UWI) campuses to involve young persons at UWI as well as young persons from Saint Lucia,” Paula James said.

Miss James says organizers are aiming to have the video conference broadcast to secondary schools.

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