{"id":498,"date":"2017-05-09T21:12:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T21:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/?p=498"},"modified":"2017-05-09T21:12:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T21:12:44","slug":"one-girl-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/2017\/05\/09\/one-girl-can\/","title":{"rendered":"One Girl Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One Girl Can is an organization that presented to our Youth and Community Services Committee. They are a charitable organization that provides an opportunity for Canadian students to fundraise for girls in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One Girl Can connects students graduating from schools in Canada (Grade 12 grad and Grade 7 transition to high school) with their equivalent in Africa to help them achieve a similar educational standard that will open doors to opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How it works:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Students sponsor girls their age in Africa<\/li>\n<li>Work to fundraise for that student<\/li>\n<li>$500 for secondary school scholarships<\/li>\n<li>$3500 for university scholarships<\/li>\n<li>One Girl Can connects them to a fundraising opportunity if they wish to use it:\n<ul>\n<li>AG Hair provides shampoo &#8211; at below cost &#8211; $10<\/li>\n<li>Students sell shampoo ($35 I believe) to friends\/neighbours<\/li>\n<li>100% of profits go to scholarships for secondary school and university scholarships in Africa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information you can connect directly with:<\/p>\n<p><strong>jennifer napier<\/strong> | fund development coordinator<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:jnapier@onegirlcan.com\">jenn@onegirlcan.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1.604.294.8870 ext . 146<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>onegirlcan.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Girl Can is an organization that presented to our Youth and Community Services Committee. They are a charitable organization that provides an opportunity for Canadian students to fundraise for girls in Africa. &nbsp; One Girl Can connects students graduating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/2017\/05\/09\/one-girl-can\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6871,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-studentservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}