{"id":1230,"date":"2013-10-24T19:50:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T23:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/students-discuss-african-trips-and-plans-for-rural-school-fundraising-at-early-childhood-club-talk-on-monday\/"},"modified":"2013-10-24T19:50:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T23:50:42","slug":"students-discuss-african-trips-and-plans-for-rural-school-fundraising-at-early-childhood-club-talk-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/students-discuss-african-trips-and-plans-for-rural-school-fundraising-at-early-childhood-club-talk-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Students discuss African trips and plans for rural school fundraising at Early Childhood Club talk on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The college\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hvcc.edu\/studentactivities\/clubact.html#EarlyChildhoodClub\">Early Childhood Club<\/a> will host a talk by a current student who completed missionary outreach work in southern Africa last summer and a current Albany Academy student who hopes to raise enough funds to start a small school in rural Zambia.<\/p>\n<p>The program, which is open to the campus and the general public, will be<strong> 2 p.m., Monday, Oct. 28, in Higbee Hall, room 100.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hudson Valley Early Childhood student Emily Groff travelled to Africa as part of a youth group and worked with children in preschools and orphanages near Cape Town, South Africa. She will speak about her experiences and her inspiration for taking the trip.<\/p>\n<p>Albany Academy student Steven Strait was inspired to raise funds to build a rural community schoolhouse after spending three weeks in a remote village in Tanzania, living in and repairing a school, and interacting with villagers and their children. Rural community schools serve areas where children would otherwise have to walk several hours to and from a government sponsored public school. He hopes to begin the project in 2015 following graduation. Strait\u2019s father, David, is a University at Albany anthropologist who has worked in Zambia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:50:42 +0000 by\u00a0e.bryant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The college\u2019s Early Childhood Club will host a talk by a current student who completed missionary outreach work in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}