{"id":7306,"date":"2015-03-19T14:08:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T14:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=7306"},"modified":"2024-01-30T09:44:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:44:37","slug":"please-join-us-for-the-national-two-dollar-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/please-join-us-for-the-national-two-dollar-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Join Us for the National TWO DOLLAR CHALLENGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2-a-day-challenge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7307 aligncenter\" alt=\"2$ a day challenge\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2-a-day-challenge.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>National TWO DOLLAR CHALLENGE<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>April 6th &#8211; 10th, 2015<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to rethink everything you think you know about the <b>end of global poverty&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>No one person can solve the problem of global poverty, but a nation in motion is a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>The Two Dollar Challenge is a grassroots movement looking to transform students&#8217; perceptions about poverty, but they need support to spread the word. Their goal is to open a meaningful nation-wide conversation about global poverty and foreign aid. Finding solutions that truly work will require radical new ways of thinking about the problem.\u00a0 By asking you to live on $2 a day, they hope to push you outside your comfort zone to critically engage with, and empathetically reevaluate global poverty and your role in its end.\u00a0<b>\u201cWe may never truly understand poverty.\u00a0But, we can revolutionize the way you think about it.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/twodollarchallenge.org\/\">Two Dollar Challenge Website<\/a> to read about their purpose and to take action!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twodollarchallenge.org\/sign-up\/\">Sign-Up<\/a> and include St. Petersburg College International Programs under the \u201cSchool, Campus, Organization or Group\u201d Section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National TWO DOLLAR CHALLENGE April 6th &#8211; 10th, 2015 It&#8217;s time to rethink everything you think you know about the end of global poverty&#8230; No one person can solve the problem of global poverty, but a nation in motion is a step in the right direction. The Two Dollar Challenge is a grassroots movement looking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/please-join-us-for-the-national-two-dollar-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Please Join Us for the National TWO DOLLAR CHALLENGE<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":7311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-7306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306","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\/593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10357,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions\/10357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}