{"id":20025,"date":"2012-03-29T00:03:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T04:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=20025"},"modified":"2012-04-02T11:33:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T15:33:03","slug":"ports-international-donates-to-special-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/ports-international-donates-to-special-olympics","title":{"rendered":"Ports International Donates To Special Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20026\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20026\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20026 \" title=\"special-olympics\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/special-olympics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/special-olympics.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/special-olympics-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/special-olympics-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R: Michele Rassin, Shelia McSweeney, Stanley Forbes, Coach &amp; General Manager, Special Olympics Bahamas, Carolyn Papai, Hilary Hall, Ports International)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the Bahamas branch of Special Olympics begins its annual fundraising drive with the intent of developing Special Olympics in the Bahamas and financing the Bahamas&#8217; athletes in international competitions this year, corporate friend Ports International joined in their efforts with their annual monetary donation to assist in our nation&#8217;s youth.<\/p>\n<p>The donation will go towards the costs of the ongoing advancement of these special children. Through its sports programs, Special Olympics strive to provide long-term benefits to individuals&#8217; health, self-esteem and social integration.<\/p>\n<p>Over 400 athletes throughout the country train and compete in 7 different Olympic type summer sports.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, to make a donation or to offer your services as a volunteer, contact Special Olympics Bahamas at (242) 356-2433 or email them at specialolympicsbahamas@yahoo.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The donation from Ports International will go towards the costs of the ongoing advancement of these special children. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[61,334,19,51],"class_list":["post-20025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-charity","tag-children","tag-health","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}