{"id":2618,"date":"2009-06-30T13:58:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T17:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2009-06-30T13:58:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T17:58:35","slug":"weekend-bba-students-move-to-the-front-lines-of-community-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2009\/06\/weekend-bba-students-move-to-the-front-lines-of-community-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend BBA+ students move to the front lines of community service."},"content":{"rendered":"

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A personal note, a favorite snack and an entertaining DVD go a long way to brighten the day of a U.S. solider serving in Afghanistan or Iraq. Thanks to the efforts of the College of Business Administration\u2019s Weekend BBA+ Group 27 students, hundreds of military men and women recently received such a morale-boosting care package.<\/p>\n

The Florida International University (FIU) students teamed with the South Florida Chapter of AT&T Pioneers to coordinate the creation of more than 400 cards and letters to accompany an equally large number of donated personal items for care packages. America\u2019s Moms for Soldiers, a Florida-based nonprofit organization committed to making sure distant troops realize how much their efforts are appreciated sends the items.<\/p>\n

\"Members<\/a>
Members of the BBA+ Weekend group 27 with representatives of AT&T Pioneer and America's Moms <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cHelping America\u2019s Moms extended our effort to stay involved in the community and work with AT&T Pioneers to raise awareness for worthy nonprofit organizations,\u201d said Linda Henderson<\/strong>, student chair for the event.<\/p>\n

Local children contribute creatively to soldiers\u2019 care packages.<\/em><\/p>\n

As part of the project, the FIU students organized two card-writing events, one at Gladeview Christian School<\/a> in Miami. Scouts with South Florida Cub Scout Pack #941 added notes and pictures to cards created at a \u201cpaint party\u201d Art Studio Miami<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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From left to right: Jackie Nasreddine, BBA+ Weekend student; Dan Smith, chair, America's Moms; Kylie Kelaher, Tom Kelaher, director, America's Moms; Judy Smith, director, America's Moms, BBA+ Weekend student Linda Henderson and Cindy Esquivel, AT&T Pioneers display cards created by Art Studio Miami, Cub Scout Pack # 941 and Gladeview Christian School.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe find that art is a therapeutic way to enrich the lives of the children who are a part of Art Studio Miami,\u201d said FIU student Sheela Romeu<\/strong>, who introduced the idea to work with the studio. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t think of a better way to get them to express their gratitude to those on the front lines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judy Smith, with America\u2019s Moms for Soldiers, agreed.<\/p>\n

\"America\u2019s<\/a>
America\u2019s Moms volunteers Tom Kelaher and Dan Smith with one of two truckloads of items for care packages.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe are extremely grateful to the FIU students and AT&T Pioneers for collecting items for the soldiers and to all the children and volunteers who created special cards and letters for them. You can\u2019t imagine how much this means to our soldiers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Working with AT&T Pioneers, Group 27 has led several successful community service projects this year including a \u201cskate night\u201d fundraiser <\/a>and a \u201cSpring Celebration\u201d with Miami Children\u2019s Hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A personal note, a favorite snack and an entertaining DVD go a long way to brighten the day of a U.S. solider serving in Afghanistan or Iraq. Thanks to the efforts of the College of Business Administration\u2019s Weekend BBA+ Group 27 students, hundreds of military men and women recently received such a morale-boosting care package. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[437,526,1207,1430,1530,1588,2157,2425,2585],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}