{"id":7821,"date":"2011-06-23T15:04:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T19:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7821"},"modified":"2011-06-23T14:26:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T18:26:31","slug":"from-african-refugee-camp-to-the-ivy-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7821","title":{"rendered":"From African Refugee Camp To The Ivy League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a long way from the soccer fields of Kenya\u2019s Kakuma refugee camp to the Ivy League \u2014 but <strong>Morris Kaunda Michael<\/strong> made the journey.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, <strong>Michael<\/strong>, a 23-year-old Sudanese refugee, graduated from Columbia\u2019s Fu Foundation School of Engineering with a B.S. in biomedical engineering. He hopes to continue his studies in medical school so he can use his education to help people still living in the severe poverty he left behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI owe something to the world. As a refugee, you don\u2019t have a lot of things of your own. Most things are gifts,\u201d said <strong>Michael<\/strong>. \u201cThe best I can do is to give back to the community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a long way from the soccer fields of Kenya\u2019s Kakuma refugee camp to the Ivy League \u2014 but Morris Kaunda Michael made the journey. Last month, Michael, a 23-year-old Sudanese refugee, graduated from Columbia\u2019s Fu Foundation School of Engineering with a B.S. in biomedical engineering. He hopes to continue his studies in medical school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}