{"id":873,"date":"2013-04-02T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/?p=873"},"modified":"2018-05-09T13:04:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T13:04:56","slug":"alumna-makes-a-difference-with-international-outreach-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/2013\/04\/02\/alumna-makes-a-difference-with-international-outreach-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna Makes a Difference with International Outreach Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, FIU alumna Onica Charles founded\u00a0International Children&#8217;s Outreach (ICO), a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring the joy in the lives of children facing poverty. As part of the group\u2019s efforts, Charles led groups of students this past March who have chosen to have an alternative spring break. Instead of partying, they spent their break making a difference for the children of Campbell\u2019s Trust Nursery School in Guyana by giving their school a facelift and upgrading their playground. This is one of many efforts by ICO to help underprivileged children around the world.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/icocharity.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to learn more about their efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, FIU alumna Onica Charles founded\u00a0International Children&#8217;s Outreach (ICO), a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring the joy in the lives of children facing poverty. As part of the group\u2019s efforts, Charles led groups of students this past March who have chosen to have an alternative spring break. Instead of partying, they spent their break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369],"tags":[381],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-spotlight","tag-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15127,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/15127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}