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CCC participants

In the first five years, 216 people from 50 different countries and different age 43

groups, joined Richmond Vale Academy to research, debate, take part in courses
and get involved in practical actions. 166 participants were part of the CCC, in
3-4 weeks courses and 6 months courses, while 50 participants took part in the 18
1
months “Fighting with the Poor” Program.
Each participant has made his or her own important contribution to the Climate

Compliance Conference and to the school. In these years, 32 participants
were Vincentians and, all of them, were awarded scholarships by Richmond
Vale Academy and the Mustique Charitable Trust (MCT). Furthermore, the
international participants came from Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Chile,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, England, France, Germany,
Ghana, Guyana, Hong Kong, Holland, Hungary, India, Italy, Iran, Japan, Jordan,
Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Mozambique, Norway, Poland, Scotland, Slovak

Republic, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sudan, Switzerland, Sweden, Portugal,

1 The “Fighting with the Poor” Program focuses on studies about the world’s cur-
rent and future situation. It also carries out a service period where participants
do community development projects in Belize and Ecuador.