{"id":8243,"date":"2016-12-19T10:29:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T15:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=8243"},"modified":"2017-01-03T10:00:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T15:00:25","slug":"fsc-honor-society-collects-books-for-students-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2016\/12\/19\/fsc-honor-society-collects-books-for-students-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"FSC Honor Society Collects Books for Students in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8261\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8261\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8261 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/Mansi-Shah-and-Deirdre-Kearns-Chi-Alpha-Epsilon-book-drive-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-R: Chi Alpha Epsilon National Honor Society members Mansi Shah and Deirdre Kearns<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More than 400 books have been collected by the FSC chapter of Chi Alpha Epsilon National Honor Society for a new library in Ghana, West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-seven boxes of books are being sent to Besease, a poor rural community in the Ashanti region of Ghana.\u00a0 The project, which ran 12 weeks and ended this month, was a campus-wide effort that included Chi Alpha Epsilon students and adviser Gene Peters, in addition to the staff of FSC&#8217;s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP). The effort was in partnership with the Give Them a Hand Foundation, an\u00a0international organization founded by Gordon Tapper, former Chief of Special Sections at the UN , who was on hand to receive the books.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing able to be a part of something this amazing is very eye-opening,&#8221; said Chi Alpha Epsilon treasurer Deirdre Kearns. &#8220;By providing books to students that have a true need you realize what you have and how you can give to others! I am glad that we could provide this simple essential gift of education and reading to young people in other countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chi Alpha Epsilon recognizes the academic achievements of students admitted to colleges through non-traditional criteria, such as EOP. It promotes high academic standards, fosters increased communication among its members\u00a0and honors academic excellence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More books are needed<\/strong>, and if you would like to donate from your collection, visit the EOP Office, 315 Laffin Hall, anytime during the spring semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 400 books have been collected by the FSC chapter of Chi Alpha Epsilon National Honor Society for a new library in Ghana, West Africa. Twenty-seven boxes of books are being sent to Besease, a poor rural community in the Ashanti region of Ghana.\u00a0 The project, which ran 12 weeks and ended this month, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":8304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8243"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8290,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243\/revisions\/8290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}