“On Bequia, if you tell someone that you are going to be a pilot, they don’t believe,” says Kadeen Hazell. “They think it’s just talk.” He feels that’s true for most people on the island: they don’t have a sense of real possibility. Kadeen, from early days, clearly wasn’t most people. Growing up in PagetContinue reading “Kadeen’s story”
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Off to school
Every day students need to travel to St. Vincent to attend high school. One of signature programs of the Grenadines Initiative, the in-country scholarship program helps make sure they get there. Lauriel Stowe wants to be a volcanologist. “We had a geography class,” she says, recalling some years ago, “and [the teacher] was talking aboutContinue reading “Off to school”
Cherrylyn’s story
For nearly three decades, Sister Glynn has been the face of care, providing essential services to the youth of Bequia By Glen Herbert “I love my work because I get to meet people directly,” says Sister Cherrylyn Glynn. “It’s one-to-one. I do counselling, I get to meet the families.” For the bulk of her careerContinue reading “Cherrylyn’s story”
Rhea’s story
At Lakefield College School, a boarding school in rural Ontario, there are students enrolled from nearly 40 countries. Rhea Simmons is the only one from Bequia or, for that matter, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Most haven’t heard of either. “Everyone wants to know what it’s like,” she says. “Occasionally someone will know where itContinue reading “Rhea’s story”
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