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Carolyn Soares didn’t know how lucky she was until she went to South Africa. She taught English to 10-year-olds without computers or sufficient textbooks in Mpumalanga, eastern South Africa. Huge numbers of children were jammed into tiny classrooms i...

Bermudian Kaiias-Gianni D’Marco Clarke is making his way as an actor in London. The teenager will play a zombie in Case Files, a science fiction miniseries scheduled for UK television. Breaking into the acting world is something he has been working t...

Children are the same, the world over. That’s what Nadia Khan learnt from a summer spent teaching in Thailand. “I thought there would be more cultural differences,” said the 31-year-old teacher. “With my own students at Somersfield Academy, they ofte...

Andreas Ratteray thought he was the smartest thing in the ocean, until he met some sharks. The 20-year-old had a close call this summer, while touring the Pacific with the Sea Education Association. “I am a pretty short dude and I was with two othe...

Booking a date with actor David Hasselhoff is easier than you think. That is what 24-year-old Kharis Brooks learnt during an internship with a British cellphone company, Vodafone. “It started as a joke,” Ms Brooks said. “We were planning a campaign ...

“Oh my God, we’re actually doing this!” This was the thought that kept running through Leidy Sinclair’s mind as she played her violin for BBC Radio 3 yesterday. The 22-year-old was performing as part of Halcyon Quartet, a group of string players. “I ...

Mandarin anyone? It isn’t an easy language to learn but Hailey Quig can’t wait to give it a try. She’ll have plenty of opportunity. Come September, the 15-year-old will leave the Island for northwestern China for two years. It’s part of a cultural ex...

Dancer Rikkai Scott knew he had all the right moves for an audition in Amsterdam. Unfortunately, he did not have money to travel. The 25-year-old was just finishing up a dance degree at the London Contemporary Dance School in the UK. “Students genera...

Astronaut Scott Carpenter survived orbiting the earth but was almost done in by Bermuda’s roads. He was visiting Bermuda in 1964 as part of a revolutionary ocean experiment by the US Navy. Unfortunately for him, he wiped out on his moped and the inju...

Kalaeb Tannock was certain he’d join the family business after high school. He was bored with his studies and saw plumbing as his only real career prospect. And then he learnt about Raleigh International. The global organisation helps empower youth w...