The
Schools Twinning Educational Empowerment programme has been designed
to create, establish and encourage, linkages between the schools of
Grenada and Barbados, expanding exponentially to enjoy the camaraderie
resulting from a global network. Schools interested and available
for Twinning are located in a number of countries, including:
• Barbados;
• Grenada & Carriacou;
• Guyana;
• Haiti;
• Malawi;
• England;
• The United States of America;
• and Canada
The benefits to be gained for participating
schools include:
• the opportunity for lending compassionate support to recovering
students of similar age and gender;
• the opportunity to assist in humanitarian relief efforts throughout
the Caribbean through the ‘Baby Survival Kit’ initiative;
• the learning experience of a cultural exchange of information
on respective countries;
• the opportunity to form long-lasting friendships via Internet
and airmail;
• the exchange of ideas, opinions and “a glimpse”
at the lifestyle of another child;
• The opportunity for exposure to alternative working teaching
methods, aids and languages;
• The opportunity for schools to obtain or exchange equipment,
books and visit each other’s websites with the compliments of
the United Caribbean Trust’ website www.UnitedCaribbean.com
• The opportunity to visit other islands, staying in Youth Hostel
Mission facilities provided at the United Caribbean Headquarters and
various Mission Projects.
It is the intention of United Caribbean Trust to create
a dedicated web page for each participating school; this page will
be useful in lending encouragement to the potential for IT Programmes.
It will facilitate familiarity with computers and will be designed
to attract equipment and other “wish list” donations,
globally.
This page is a framework that teachers and pupils can build on. United
Caribbean is willing and able to help in this process.
Seen below the first meeting with the principles in
Carriacou in October 2004.
Principles, parents and pupils
have been interviewed in an attempt to test the market and a
very positive response has now encouraged the United Caribbean
Trust to proceed with the programme in Barbados, Guyana and
Haiti.
Seen here the Carriacou Ministry of Education,
Mrs. Gertrude Niles (Click
to read letter from Mrs Niles)
A suggestion was made to look into twinning
schools from Barbados and Trinidad with schools in Carriacou,
Haiti and Guyana, this was met with enthusiasm and with that in
mind we agreed to create web pages for each school with a view
of building on these pages as supplies are shipped and the situation
in the schools eased by the help of the women's NGO's of the Caribbean.
The
Schools Twinning Educational Empowerment programme has been designed
to create, establish and encourage, linkages between the schools of
Grenada and Barbados, expanding exponentially to enjoy the camaraderie
resulting from a global network. Schools interested and available
for Twinning are located in a number of countries, including:
