The Eden Lodge Youth Charitable Trust has launched an international language exchange initiative, Beyond Words, bringing a French university student into Barbadian schools to help students strengthen their language skills while fostering cultural understanding and global connections.

The programme was outlined during a media briefing at St Paul’s Primary School, Brittons Cross Road, on Thursday, where the trust’s public relations officer, Billie-June Langdon, explained that the initiative grew out of discussions surrounding an internship placement for Luxon Warner, a student of EXCELIA Business School in Orléans, France.

The trust saw Warner’s placement through the Humacité Programme as an opportunity to create a new project focused on “cultural exchange opportunities, youth empowerment activity, enhanced community development, development of global awareness, [and] creation of meaningful relationships across different cultures”, Langdon said.