{"id":44716,"date":"2013-12-11T09:35:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T14:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=44716"},"modified":"2014-01-07T11:10:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T16:10:11","slug":"btvi-partners-with-cans-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/12\/btvi-partners-with-cans-for-kids","title":{"rendered":"BTVI Partners with Cans for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44718\" title=\"cans-for-kids-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/cans-for-kids-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/cans-for-kids-1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/cans-for-kids-1-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/cans-for-kids-1-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Students of the Tech Prep Construction Technology program at the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) have completed eight wooden receptacles for the \u2018Cans for Kids\u2019 program.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44719\" title=\"cans-for-kids-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/cans-for-kids-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/cans-for-kids-2.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/cans-for-kids-2-149x250.jpg 149w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>The students have been working on the receptacles since October 28th.\u00a0 Cans For Kids is a non-profit organization founded in 1998 by Ginny McKinney to recycle aluminum cans. The net proceeds are used to help finance children&#8217;s programs in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, 61 schools in New Providence and the Family Islands participate in the recycling program along with 28 businesses and youth organizations. According to BTVI\u2019s Carpentry Head of Department, Graham Thornley, the community project has benefitted students in multiple ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt teaches them basic skills and techniques to be used in carpentry.\u00a0 They have learned to use power tools like the table saw, drills, the compound mitre and they learned measurement and safety precautions among other things. At the same time, they are giving back to the community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Top: BTVI carpentry students Hezekiah Gordon (l) and Annishkea Collie (r) are under the watchful supervision of carpentry Head of Department, Graham Thornley, as they build wooden receptacles to help collect cans for kids.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Side: BTVI carpentry students Hezekiah Gordon (l) and Annishkea Collie (r) are acquiring practical skills while contributing to the community project, \u2018Cans for Kids.\u2019<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students of the Tech Prep Construction Technology program at the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) have completed eight wooden receptacles for the \u2018Cans for Kids\u2019 program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":44718,"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":[491],"tags":[21,195,51],"class_list":["post-44716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-educational","tag-school","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44716","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}