{"id":14152,"date":"2016-10-28T14:10:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T14:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/?p=14152"},"modified":"2024-01-30T11:53:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T16:53:04","slug":"change-lives-changed-dominican-republic-study-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/change-lives-changed-dominican-republic-study-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Lives and Be Changed: Dominican Republic Study Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Make your Spring Break count! Join SPC in a service learning abroad program to the Dominican Republic and contribute to the empowerment and development of a local community. \u00a0Earn college credit, change a child&#8217;s life, and learn from the Dominican culture!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what last year&#8217;s participants had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Girls who go home to a poverty-stricken household have found their second family here. I can see their gratefulness and joy. It warms my heart to see them find an opportunity and even more so take it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Dominican culture has transformed my whole mentality of life.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Scholarships are available for this program!<\/strong> Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad-scholarships\/\">Study Abroad Scholarship webpage<\/a> to learn more, and apply by the deadline of Tuesday November 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/dominican-republic\/\">Click here<\/a> for full program details and a link to the program application.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/important-lesson-dominican-republic\/clayton-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12989\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12989\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/06\/Clayton-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Clayton (3)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/06\/Clayton-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/06\/Clayton-3.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make your Spring Break count! Join SPC in a service learning abroad program to the Dominican Republic and contribute to the empowerment and development of a local community. \u00a0Earn college credit, change a child&#8217;s life, and learn from the Dominican culture! Here&#8217;s what last year&#8217;s participants had to say: &#8220;Girls who go home to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/change-lives-changed-dominican-republic-study-abroad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Change Lives and Be Changed: Dominican Republic Study Abroad<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":14153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[96,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dominican-republic","category-study-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14154,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14152\/revisions\/14154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}