{"id":72214,"date":"2014-07-16T09:10:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=72214"},"modified":"2014-08-11T08:59:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T12:59:07","slug":"u-s-embassy-partners-with-freedom-farm-baseball-league-to-promote-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/07\/u-s-embassy-partners-with-freedom-farm-baseball-league-to-promote-literacy","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0U.S. Embassy Partners with Freedom Farm Baseball League to Promote Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72215\" alt=\"embassy-scholastic-books\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/embassy-scholastic-books.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On July 15, U.S. Embassy Acting Deputy Chief of Mission Ms. Neda Brown met with officials of the Freedom Farm Baseball League to discuss the Embassy\u2019s support of the league\u2019s efforts to raise awareness about literacy and education among young Bahamian baseball players.\u00a0 During the meeting, Ms. Brown formally presented 200 scholastic books to Mr. Castino Sands, League Commissioner and Mr. Kenny Mondesir, Assistant Director of Sponsorship to assist with the league\u2019s educational development program.<\/p>\n<p>The Freedom Farm league will distribute the donated books to outstanding baseball players in recognition of their performance throughout the season.\u00a0 Some of the books will also be distributed during Freedom Farm\u2019s \u201cLiteracy Day\u201d event scheduled for the upcoming baseball season where children from the wider community will be invited to participate.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom Farm is a non-profit baseball league with a membership of approximately 650 children and young adults.\u00a0 The league focuses not only on developing baseball skills, but also on building character, teaching unity through teamwork, and encouraging the pursuit of higher education.\u00a0 The motto of the league is: &#8220;Higher Learning through the Sport of Baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With this latest donation from the U.S. Embassy, the Freedom Farm Baseball League has now received approximately 600 books from its partners, with a goal of collecting 2,000 books by January 2015.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>United States Embassy, Nassau<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Caption: U.S. Embassy Acting Deputy Chief of Mission Ms. Neda Brown formally present 200 scholastic books to Mr. Castino Sands, Freedom Farm Baseball League Commissioner and Mr. Kenny Mondesir, Assistant Director of Sponsorship.\u00a0 The books will be used to assist with the league\u2019s educational development program.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Embassy Acting Deputy Chief of Mission Ms. Neda Brown met with officials of the Freedom Farm Baseball League to discuss the Embassy\u2019s support of the league\u2019s efforts to raise awareness about literacy and education among young Bahamian baseball players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":72215,"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":[204,18],"tags":[2016,131,51],"class_list":["post-72214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-lifestyle","tag-education-2","tag-sports-2","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72214","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=72214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}