{"id":488,"date":"2013-10-30T02:09:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T23:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petalsofafrica.org\/blog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2015-02-06T23:04:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T20:04:49","slug":"whatever-blesses-one-blesses-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.petalsofafrica.org\/blog\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Whatever blesses one blesses all\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another youth for youth fundraiser is a success!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Emelie Fredrikson and Ellie Towle, senior and junior, Principians, created a fundraiser to bless the boarding students of Ngochoni Petals School in Kenya while also blessing the boarding students of The Principia Upper School.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Parents were invited to make a donation towards the goal of 37 new metal bunk beds greatly needed at the Petals School where there are currently 102 boarding students.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0In return for each family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s generosity, their Principia boarding student will receive a special cookie\/brownie package on upcoming holidays from the kitchens of Emelie and Ellie.\u00c2\u00a0Many day student parents contributed as well,\u00c2\u00a0responding to this heartfelt idea.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_486\" style=\"width: 552px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petalsofafrica.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Petals-BunkBeds-Old-with-New-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-486\" class=\" wp-image-486 \" alt=\"Petals BunkBeds Old with New 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.petalsofafrica.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Petals-BunkBeds-Old-with-New-2013.jpg\" width=\"542\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.petalsofafrica.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Petals-BunkBeds-Old-with-New-2013.jpg 3888w, http:\/\/www.petalsofafrica.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Petals-BunkBeds-Old-with-New-2013-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.petalsofafrica.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Petals-BunkBeds-Old-with-New-2013-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA volunteer to help make boarding students near and far feel comforted and loved.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These two young women were inspired by two graduates of Petals School that are now attending Principia Upper School. Ellie has also served in Rwanda helping disabled children and recognizes how Christian Science can reveal and bring goodness to the continent of Africa. Emelie cares deeply that this school has a Christian Science basis and sees this as palpable in the loving nature of the two students who are now fellow classmates. On October 21 during the Petals Consortium monthly teleconference, the Head of School of Petals shared that the #1 need at the school is additional bunk beds. Thanks to Ellie and Emelie, active hearts and willing hands, there will be 20 new metal bunk beds for the students of this rural school where former warring tribes are uniting through education.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_487\" style=\"width: 552px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petalsofafrica.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Petals-Youth-Fundraiser-2013-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-487\" class=\" wp-image-487 \" alt=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/www.petalsofafrica.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Petals-Youth-Fundraiser-2013-002.jpg\" width=\"542\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellie Towle and Emelie Fredrikson of St. Louis<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another youth for youth fundraiser is a success!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Emelie Fredrikson and Ellie Towle, senior and junior, Principians, created a fundraiser to bless the boarding students of Ngochoni Petals School in Kenya while also blessing the boarding students of The Principia Upper School.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Parents were invited to make a donation towards the goal of 37 new metal bunk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-exchange","category-principia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petalsofafrica.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petalsofafrica.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petalsofafrica.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petalsofafrica.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petalsofafrica.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.petalsofafrica.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"http:\/\/www.petalsofafrica.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petalsofafrica.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petalsofafrica.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petalsofafrica.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}