{"id":1373,"date":"2017-02-03T12:38:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T17:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/peace-centre\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2021-08-04T16:57:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T20:57:21","slug":"february-8th-kate-bateman-youth-upliftment-international-making-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/peace-centre\/2017\/02\/03\/february-8th-kate-bateman-youth-upliftment-international-making-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"February 8th Kate Bateman &#8211; Youth Upliftment International &#8211; Making a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As a part of Social Science Week, on February 8th, at 4pm in 5B.16,<\/strong> Kate Bateman- President of Youth Upliftment International, will speak at this year&#8217;s 2017 Social Science Week. \u00a0In 2008, at the age of 17 Kate was confronted with one of the realities of this world &#8211; impoverished disenfranchised Haitian children living in the Dominican Republic with little to no opportunity for an education and a lack of \u00a0institutionalized support. Kate will share her journey that culminated in the creation of a free school for these children living in Puerto Plata. She will address the successes and pitfalls of being a frontline worker in development work, why she sees education as the tool to ending the cycle of poverty and her experience.<\/p>\n<p>To check out more information on Youth Upliftment <a href=\"http:\/\/youthupliftment.org\/\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of Social Science Week, on February 8th, at 4pm in 5B.16, Kate Bateman- President of Youth Upliftment International, will speak at this year&#8217;s 2017 Social Science Week. \u00a0In 2008, at the age of 17 Kate was confronted with one of the realities of this world &#8211; impoverished disenfranchised Haitian children living in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/peace-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/peace-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/peace-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/peace-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/peace-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/peace-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/peace-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/peace-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/peace-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/peace-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/peace-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}