Connecting Cultures ‘Arctic Explorers’ 2005

The MBI Al Jaber Foundation has recently awarded a grant to Connecting Cultures, an initiative designed to bring young people from the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia together in order to enhance cultural awareness and promote mutual and environmental understanding.

The 2005 Connecting Cultures expedition will be to the Arctic wilderness of Svalbard which, at 80 degrees north, is just 500 miles from the North Pole. In July 2005 four boys from Windlesham House School in the United Kingdom, and six boys from Kingdom and King Faisal Schools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia will spend two weeks living and travelling in this Arctic wilderness.