{"id":835,"date":"2012-03-03T15:21:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T20:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=835"},"modified":"2015-02-24T15:21:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T20:21:52","slug":"from-old-t-shirts-a-spark-for-ghana-development","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/from-old-t-shirts-a-spark-for-ghana-development\/","title":{"rendered":"From old t-shirts, a spark for Ghana development"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"massComm right\" style=\"width: 300px;\">\n<h2>The Participants<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"float: left;\">\n<li>Yvonne Young<\/li>\n<li>Ginny Soskey<\/li>\n<li>Rachel Goldstein<\/li>\n<li>Yin Tang<\/li>\n<li>NaEun Park<\/li>\n<li>Becky Loya<\/li>\n<li>Emily Lorei<\/li>\n<li>Harper Schmidt<\/li>\n<li>Brianna Epstein<\/li>\n<li>Ivellisse Morales<\/li>\n<li>Laura Castro<\/li>\n<li>Alisha Zaveri<\/li>\n<li>Mirabelle Murray<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"float: right;\">\n<li>Lori Kovacevich<\/li>\n<li>Rachel Eides<\/li>\n<li>Rebecca Hwang<\/li>\n<li>Rebecca Beyer<\/li>\n<li>Ashley Waxman<\/li>\n<li>Merry Lo<\/li>\n<li>Alex Hyken<\/li>\n<li>Fiona Maguire<\/li>\n<li>Kosha Shah<\/li>\n<li>Juhi Pikale<\/li>\n<li>Katie Radford<\/li>\n<li>Melanie Murray<\/li>\n<li>Branson Skinner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On February 25, the Boston University Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) hosted its 6th annual regional conference: &#8220;PR Advanced: Unleash Our Generation.&#8221; Students had the opportunity to attend panel sessions and network with industry professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Two Gen-Y leaders, Branson Skinner and Liz Ricketts, launched <a href=\"http:\/\/pradvanced.com\/afutu-project\/\">The AFUTU Project<\/a> at Saturday\u2019s event. The project showcased the \u201cWe Intend\u201d campaign, asking the question, &#8220;What world do you intend for our children?\u201d Attendees were asked to bring an old t-shirt to the conference and write their answer on their shirt. The shirts will then be sent to Ghana, where a team of seamstresses will make them into backpacks that will be sold online and around college campuses to raise money to promote children\u2019s education and community development in Accra, Ghana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Participants Yvonne Young Ginny Soskey Rachel Goldstein Yin Tang NaEun Park Becky Loya Emily Lorei Harper Schmidt Brianna Epstein&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9874,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[362,363,364],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/835\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}