 More than 20 young persons are better equipped to explore entrepreneurship after participating in the inaugural Urban Adventures summer camp. The Junior Achievement Program of St. Lucia hosted the closing ceremony for the first ever Urban Adventures summer camp. The Junior Achievement Program focuses on three educational pillars for success, financial literacy, entrepreneurship and readiness. The camp focused on the new strategies of the Junior Achievement Program and created an avenue to develop the youth and ensure sustainability for the program. Approximately 21 participants graduated from the two-week long program. Parliamentary representative for Grosjele Honourable Leonard Montoute noted that the different aspects taught at the camp will aid in the holistic development of the youth. These are qualities, these are skills that you should begin to practice as of now and take with you for the rest of your life. To learn to become an entrepreneur is more important than ever. Gone are the days when you can have an education in St. Lucia and expect to get a job in the public service or in some establishment. More and more you have to begin to think innovatively as to how you can provide employment for yourselves. That will become very critical in the aftermath as if I know that COVID-19 is about to end. But whether we have to live with it or if we are fortunate enough any time soon to come out of it, I know that in the aftermath we will need the qualities that you've learned here today. Chairman of the Junior Achievement Program, Kurt Hosam expressed gratitude to all stakeholders involved in the initiative. It is said it takes a community to raise a child. So I found it fitting that one of the, apart from etiquette fundamentals of banking and finance, arts and crafts, teamwork, savings and physical fitness that are all necessary, we dealt with agriculture, the fundamentals of agriculture and I want to draw parallel to us today that we have a responsibility to continue to sow seeds for the future in our children today. Everybody could agree with me? Yeah? We are sowing seeds. This program is sowing seeds of development for future, for our future because this is the future of the nation. It is within our young people and in preparing them with such fundamental skills enables them to be able to go out and to be functional in our world and that is at the heart of Junior Achievement. We want to encourage the spirit of entrepreneurship and we want to do so in a collaborative fashion. Jim Zavier, Director of Community Service, encouraged participants to remain disciplined and keep focused on their goals. I want to admonish you to continue in this vein, you are on the right track in life, that with discipline and the level of focus that you've shown that you are destined to reach very far. I want to compliment the parents, you've done an excellent job, continue parents providing the support for them, the ministry will be there to support JAA and the other community organizations to ensure that they go very far. The closing ceremony for the Urban Adventures summer camp took place on Wednesday August 26, 2020. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting.