[Anglican Church of Canada and Church of the West Indies Planning Joint Work Tours]
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- Date
- 1969 May 10
- Source
- Anglican News Service
- Type
- Press Release
- Text of motion
- The Anglican Church of Canada and the Church of the West Indies are planning joint work tours for this summer that will involve about 70 young people of Canada, Venezuela, British Honduras, Guyana and Jamaica. The two-way, educational and cultural projects seek to promote mutual understanding and friendship.
- The international exchange will send 10 Canadians to British Honduras. Six others will go to eastern Venezuela and a similar number to Jamaica.
- Youth groups from Jamaica and Guyana will tour Ontario and visit Montreal. On the six- or seven-week tours in July and August the visitors will have as partners an equal number of young people representing the countries acting as hosts.
- In 1967, Canadian parties went to Jamaica and Antigua and last year the scheme was extended to include Guyana. So successful were these efforts that the Canadian church decided to move farther afield, and at the same time issued invitations that will bring Guyanese and Jamaicans to Canada for the first time.
- The Canadians going to sub-tropical British Honduras are chiefly school teachers. They will engage in an educational-recreational program in schools, most of which are church-operated with governmental assistance.
- Two Spanish-speaking young people are included in the group going to El Callao and San Felix where, with their Venezuelan counterparts, among other things, they will renovate a church. In Jamaica the Canadians will work and play with children at Grace Hill Mission, situated in an under-developed area near Montego Bay.
- Guyanese and Jamaicans coming to Ontario are expected to number about 20, but this figure awaits confirmation. With Canadian volunteers they will split into groups and carry out novel assignments. Some will learn of inner-city work being done at Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto and attend camps in these areas. Another party is to make a religious census of the Tyendinaga Indian Reserve near Deseronto, while others will clear a site for a chapel at Camp Hyanto near Lyndhurst. The entire party will visit Ottawa and Montreal near the end of their visit.
- More than 300 Canadians in the 18-25 age group, from all over Canada, have expressed interest in the Anglican Church's work-tour plans this year and of these 40 are being selected after screening and interviews. The unit cost for each is $500 to be shared by the applicant, his parish and diocese and the national church. Unsuccessful applicants are advised of other volunteer service projects undertaken by a variety of agencies.
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- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada - Relations - Church in the Province of the West Indies
- Exchange of persons programs - Anglican Church of Canada
- Exchange of persons programs - Church in the Province of the West Indies
- Youth in the Anglican Church of Canada
- Youth - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Belize
- Trinidad
- Venzuela
- Guyana
- Jamaica
- Work tours