Source: sify.com
UNITED KINGDOM, July 28, 2010: A novel initiative called Global Leicester has been launched here to teach British children about Asian cultures that abound the city’s diverse ethnic population.
The promoter, Leicestershire Education Business Company (LEBC), says the new venture will promote multi-culturalism from an early age by understanding local cultural differences and dismantling boundaries communities construct around themselves by intention or otherwise. Since 1992, LEBC has set up and managed links between schools, colleges and companies, so that young people, aged 5-19 learn more about business and working life.
As part of the introductory programme, a team of school children were taken on a trip to Leicester’s Golden Mile, the stretch of Belgrave Road populated by Asian community, particularly Indian. The primary schools children from across the city went around the various Indian banks, restaurants, sari shops, Asian supermarkets and sweet-marts and even the Shree Ram Mandir.