{"id":8568,"date":"2020-10-26T13:30:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T17:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/?p=8568"},"modified":"2020-10-27T10:55:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T14:55:55","slug":"tutu-desk-campaign-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/news\/tutu-desk-campaign-update","title":{"rendered":"Tutu Desk Campaign Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/467790080?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Five Oaks Academy Upper Elementary student, Magdalene, created this amazing video to support and raise awareness of the TutuDesk Campaign.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thandi Tutu-Gxashe, CEO of Desmond Tutu&#8217;s Tutudesk Campaign &#8220;Tutudesk Campaign 2020,&#8221; visited Five Oaks Academy in the Fall of 2018. She spoke to our students about the shortage of over 90 million desks in sub-Saharan Africa and her Campaign&#8217;s mission to provide 20 million Tutudesks to 20 million children by 2020. Thandi Tutu-Gxashe is the daughter of the highly influential leader of the antiapartheid movement in South Africa, Desmond Tutu. Her passion for education and drive to address the vast shortage of desks in sub-Saharan Africa was an inspiration to our students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thandi-Tutu-Gxashe-at-FOA-e1603733611702-540x472.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7993\" width=\"181\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thandi-Tutu-Gxashe-at-FOA-e1603733611702-540x472.jpg 540w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thandi-Tutu-Gxashe-at-FOA-e1603733611702-270x236.jpg 270w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thandi-Tutu-Gxashe-at-FOA-e1603733611702-768x672.jpg 768w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thandi-Tutu-Gxashe-at-FOA-e1603733611702-200x175.jpg 200w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thandi-Tutu-Gxashe-at-FOA-e1603733611702-125x109.jpg 125w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thandi-Tutu-Gxashe-at-FOA-e1603733611702-60x52.jpg 60w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thandi-Tutu-Gxashe-at-FOA-e1603733611702-85x74.jpg 85w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thandi-Tutu-Gxashe-at-FOA-e1603733611702-80x70.jpg 80w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thandi-Tutu-Gxashe-at-FOA-e1603733611702-1536x1343.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thandi-Tutu-Gxashe-at-FOA-e1603733611702.jpg 1775w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Since her visit, FOA has been heavily involved in raising awareness and funds throughout South Carolina for the \u201cTutu Desk Campaign.&#8221; As a school, FOA students have raised $3,226.11 over the past year and a half through lemonade stands, bake sales, and specially-designed T-shirts that have helped raise awareness and funds. FOA&nbsp;also played a role in recruiting both public and private Montessori schools throughout South Carolina via the&nbsp;South Carolina Montessori Alliance to participate in reaching a goal of $20,000.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tutudesk is an environmentally-friendly, light, portable desk that children can use at school or at home, in regular classrooms or outdoors. The organization\u2019s goal is to improve the lives of African children, their communities and countries, and to make Africa a more globally competitive continent by impacting education and literacy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To donate to the FOA student campaign, visit <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/giving\/tutu-desk-campaign-2020?fbclid=IwAR3oT5gA8ow5h4cZkqMz107DbZuU5hIKH0U1i_zQSYM5UqTJaDez0tOVOAc\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/foastatic.local\/&#8230;\/tutu-desk-campaign-2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about the global campaign, visit <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftutudesk.org%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0VdEBsfyy9TdgKkKfEqa5p8H7Akb5Ezpnl5diLgbvm8rxAmJJOhW2iDpY&amp;h=AT0IzGMVIOUziv5WRlASWbxGVJkPspTQmgJPu5RcM0Ifmlobr0gCwPrt5km-WeznoplO158wCkj2lx4SLJHnGTt61O31MF1phSkuK-XAu_b8J2sdaGZEuNGc7dac0C0NDQ&amp;__tn__=-UK-R&amp;c[0]=AT25JtsWrK4nwH6Cg7ra6Z10Tju7JZEKvpH7qPOeTnq5QobfWcQ-f1GaF89BiJpPqJzO8Q3YNS3iAUpq1DMN7lFstPgzUm_fpp2YLpkuIpY7WvbOyXLmsGYmjcJQKEa1jbrh-57ERWdOaMSwEzo8ZymLD3kmb4SEfpaGq_3fRnt4xbXZHwyI6rQfWc_HRwBS4rRib5_EdaAfTx1e6szmu1z3ftm5QPxE\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tutudesk.org.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thandi Tutu-Gxashe, CEO of Desmond Tutu&#8217;s Tutudesk Campaign &#8220;Tutudesk Campaign 2020,&#8221; visited Five Oaks Academy in the Fall of 2018. She spoke to our students about the shortage of over 90 million desks in sub-Saharan Africa and her Campaign&#8217;s mission to provide 20 million Tutudesks to 20 million children by 2020. Thandi Tutu-Gxashe is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":7994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[39,44,45,42,43,41,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}