Four young persons from Anguilla are currently attending the 32nd World Affairs being held from June 20-26 at Carrol University in Wisconsin. The attendance was initiated by the Rotary Club of Anguilla that co-sponsored two of the students along with the Rotary Club of New York and the Anguilla Social Security Board. The other two are being sponsored by several businesses in Anguilla.

The Anguillian attendees at seminar

Rotaract members Sherise Brooks and Shellya Rogers and Interact members Jiva Niles and Gino Webster are the group attending the Seminar. Sherise and Shellya attended the Seminar last year and it led Shellya to apply to the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, where the Seminar was held last year. She was successful and will be starting to study Arts Management come September. Sherise will be studying Human Resource Management in London. The two younger members of the group have just completed fifth form and hope to continue studying in the sixth form next term.

This year the topic at the Seminar is “World Hunger” and featured speakers include Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio, authors of “What the World Eats” and Dr Florence Chenoweth, the first woman appointed to serve as minister of agriculture in her native Liberia. Also featured will be Will Allen, former NBA basketball player and head of Growing Power Inc. an organization dedicated to urban farming located in Milwaukee that grow chemical free products.
The Seminar exposes young people from throughout the world to other cultures and ideas and gives them the opportunity to participate in challenging intellectual exercises and to make lasting friendships with people their own age from other countries. After the Seminar participants are expected to have a deep understanding of the different sectors of the world affected by hunger. They will also have explored and formed ideas on how to help relieve the crisis on a local, national and global level.

Last year, on returning to Anguilla the participants held a one day seminar to share the knowledge acquired with their peers. It is planned that a similar exercise will take place again this year.

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