{"id":6335,"date":"2015-11-10T21:02:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T21:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6335"},"modified":"2015-11-16T18:11:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T18:11:01","slug":"scholarship-recipient-sarah-abendanon-interviewed-by-the-lutheran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/11\/10\/scholarship-recipient-sarah-abendanon-interviewed-by-the-lutheran\/","title":{"rendered":"ELCA scholarship recipient Sarah Abendanon is interviewed by <br \/>The Lutheran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/11\/theluth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6336 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/11\/theluth.jpg\" alt=\"The Lutheran\" width=\"295\" height=\"118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/11\/theluth.jpg 438w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/11\/theluth-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a>Augsburg College student and Suriname citizen\u00a0<strong>Sarah Abendanon<\/strong>\u00a0was interviewed for an article in The Lutheran, the magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The story detailed a scholarship program for women leaders from the \u201cglobal south,\u201d which is comprised of Africa, Central and Latin America, and most of Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Noticing a lack educational access for women in these areas, the ELCA Churchwide Assembly voted in 2013 to raise $4 million over a five-year period in order to provide scholarships for 200 women.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My religion professor asks what we think about our readings and encourages different points of view. In Suriname schools, what the teacher says goes,\u201d Abendanon explained.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the outdoor climate, Abendanon has prepared for winter by purchasing a large winter coat. \u201cBring it on!\u201d she said in the article.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">Read: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelutheran.org\/article\/article.cfm?article_id=12844\" target=\"_blank\">Women of purpose &#8211; ELCA scholarships prepare emerging leaders from the \u2018global south\u2019<\/a> on The Lutheran site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg College student and Suriname citizen\u00a0Sarah Abendanon\u00a0was interviewed for an article in The Lutheran, the magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The story detailed a scholarship program for women leaders from the \u201cglobal south,\u201d which is comprised of Africa, Central and Latin America, and most of Asia. Noticing a lack educational access for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[849,3258,3636,1405,3716,2544,3715],"class_list":["post-6335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-students","tag-diversity","tag-elca","tag-inclusion","tag-international-students","tag-sarah-abendanon","tag-scholarships","tag-suriname"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6400,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions\/6400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}