{"id":800,"date":"2021-03-17T13:38:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T13:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floridaperinatalcenter.com\/?p=800"},"modified":"2021-03-17T13:38:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T13:38:02","slug":"florida-perinatal-center-donates-computers-to-jamaican-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/floridaperinatalcenter\/florida-perinatal-center-donates-computers-to-jamaican-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Perinatal Center Donates Computers to Jamaican Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>[SOUTH FLORIDA]<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Students of Rock Hall Primary in Portland, Jamaica expressed gratitude to the South Florida Diaspora. Grateful for the contribution of tablets donated by the Jamaica United Relief Association (JURA) and Florida Perinatal Center, Coral Springs.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>A Device for every Child\u00a0 \u2013 Bridging the Digital Divide<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>This was in response to the appeal by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Congenmiami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Consul General Oliver Mair<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for Diaspora support. Support to Jamaica\u2019s Ministry of Education initiative \u201c<strong>A Device for every Child\u00a0 \u2013 Bridging the Digital Divide<\/strong>\u201d.\u00a0 Several associations and individuals responded to the recent\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sflcn.com\/consul-general-mair-to-host-christmas-concert-and-telethon-for-jamaican-children-education-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christmas Concert &amp; Telethon<\/a><\/strong>. The event hosted by the Consulate and Kiwanis of East Miramar\/Pembroke Pines.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds from the event went towards purchase of additional tablets and laptop for schools on the Island.\u00a0 Several Jamaican alumni associations have begun shipping the much needed devices to their alma maters. This, in an effort to assist in the disruption to instructional time in the classrooms caused by the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Other schools receiving the devices from JURA and Florida Perinatal Center included the Sherwood Forest All Age, Portland. In addition to Drapers All Age School; Girls Becoming Home \u2013 Portland and the Louise Bennett All-Age in Gordon Town, St. Andrew.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sflcn.com\/jamaican-students-receive-computer-devices-donated-by-the-diaspora\/\">Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[SOUTH FLORIDA]\u00a0\u2013 Students of Rock Hall Primary in Portland, Jamaica expressed gratitude to the South Florida Diaspora. Grateful for the contribution of tablets donated by the Jamaica United Relief Association (JURA) and Florida Perinatal Center, Coral Springs. A Device for every Child\u00a0 \u2013 Bridging the Digital Divide This was in response to the appeal by\u00a0Consul General Oliver Mair\u00a0for Diaspora support. Support to Jamaica\u2019s Ministry of Education initiative \u201cA Device for every Child\u00a0 \u2013 Bridging the Digital Divide\u201d.\u00a0 Several associations and  &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/floridaperinatalcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/floridaperinatalcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/floridaperinatalcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/floridaperinatalcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/floridaperinatalcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/floridaperinatalcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/floridaperinatalcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/floridaperinatalcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/floridaperinatalcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/floridaperinatalcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}