{"id":246,"date":"2023-08-31T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-rpf.oxf.local\/?p=246"},"modified":"2024-09-17T08:48:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T12:48:38","slug":"toronto-raptors-star-teaming-up-with-mckenna-institute-to-help-unb-students-from-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-rpf.oxf.local\/toronto-raptors-star-teaming-up-with-mckenna-institute-to-help-unb-students-from-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors star teaming up with McKenna Institute to help UNB students from Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pascal Siakam has become a star forward with the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a young player in Cameroon with a lot of talent and potential, Siakam\u2019s father always told him not to take a career in basketball for granted. Though things worked out for the two-time all-star and NBA champion, he\u2019s paying it forward with a scholarship program for young people coming from Cameroon to the University of New Brunswick (UNB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Siakam and his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ps43foundation.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PS43 Foundation<\/a>&nbsp;are teaming up with UNB\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unb.ca\/mckenna\/\">McKenna Institute<\/a>&nbsp;and the River Philip Foundation. Together, they\u2019re putting $200,000 towards a new tech-focused scholarship to students from Siakam\u2019s birth country of Cameroon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.unb.ca\/newsroom\/2023\/08\/students-from-cameroon.php\">Read the full article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pascal Siakam has become a star forward with the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a young player in Cameroon with a lot of talent and potential, Siakam\u2019s father always told him not to take a career in basketball for granted. Though things worked out for the two-time all-star and NBA champion,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-rpf.oxf.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-rpf.oxf.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-rpf.oxf.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-rpf.oxf.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-rpf.oxf.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-rpf.oxf.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-rpf.oxf.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-rpf.oxf.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-rpf.oxf.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-rpf.oxf.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-rpf.oxf.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}