{"id":914,"date":"2011-03-30T20:06:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T01:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=914"},"modified":"2011-03-30T20:06:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T01:06:56","slug":"help-build-a-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"Help Build a School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to share the story of a remarkable young women who I had the pleasure to know back in my teaching days in Jordan.\u00a0 Luma Mufleh was full of optimism during her high school days. If memory serves correctly she was instrumental in a fund raising effort selling <em>Peace in Our Times<\/em> sweatshirts.\u00a0 Those were heady days as the Berlin wall fell, the Soviet Union transformed and an ambassador from Israel arrived in Jordan.\u00a0 The hope, optimism and compassion of her youth has never left her. It has only been magnified as she has the encountered the world with adult eyes and broader experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Luma observed the world around her, saw those in need and just stepped right in.\u00a0 She began coaching a group of young war refugees in Clarkston GA a few years back. Her efforts have broadened to helping them acquire a good education and support for their families.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fugeesfamily.org\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fugees Family<\/a> now includes a school which hopes to expand.\u00a0 They are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fugeesfamily.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">raising money<\/a> to build a bigger school and expand resources to the refugee community. They boys have created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6qhUBGCBVbA\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> to show you their school and plans to expand.\u00a0 I encourage you to watch the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6qhUBGCBVbA\" target=\"_blank\"> video<\/a>, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fugeesfamily.org\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\">their site<\/a>, and pass the information on to others.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to share the story of a remarkable young women who I had the pleasure to know back in my teaching days in Jordan.\u00a0 Luma Mufleh was full of optimism during her high school days. If memory serves correctly she was instrumental in a fund raising effort selling Peace in Our Times sweatshirts.\u00a0 Those were heady days as the Berlin wall fell, the Soviet Union transformed and an ambassador from Israel arrived in Jordan.\u00a0 The hope, optimism and compassion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=914\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,26,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}