My time at RVA

I started the 6 months program at RVA when I was 19 and I experienced a lot here and I met a lot of amazing people whom I still have contact with today. They came from all over the world. I started to see the world in a different perspective because everyone comes here with a different background and story to tell about their country and themselves and that made me realize that the world is not always what you seem to think watching the news.
I learned about climate change and how it affects the world and everything around us, I am happy that I learned this because I didnt know nothing about it when I first came here.
I was actually surprised that climate was a crisis and it caught my attention cause when I made research and put one and one together it all made sense thinking of all the floodings we have had in St Vincent.
I learned how to make home gardens with my team - we were spread into 3 groups. My group made 2 big home gardens in Chato and Troumaca. It was a challenging and interesting period because we built the gardens from scratch. We learned about permaculture and implementing the design principles at the same time.
After the program I left for a couple of years and then returned to become Coral Reef gardener. I got certified padi open water and advanced and I learned about the corals that they alive and they are endangered because the oceans are acidifying and pollution. So we are working on restoring them back to life and populate the coastal areas that were lost.
I came to RVA as a young man of 19. I am now 25 and I have learned a lot working with RVA and I am very grateful for what I have learned and I want to do more in the future.