  {"id":6338,"date":"2015-01-13T13:46:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T18:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?p=6338"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:47:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:47:02","slug":"eurus-alumni-work-help-underprivileged-families-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/2015\/eurus-alumni-work-help-underprivileged-families-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"EURUS Alumni Help Out in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        EURUS Alumni Help Out in Afghanistan\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/20141124_183036-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"20141124_183036\" class=\"wp-image-6340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/20141124_183036-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/20141124_183036-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/20141124_183036-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/20141124_183036-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/20141124_183036-360x203.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2014, the Afghan Student Association (ASA) in Ottawa collected $1,000 through fundraising events organized by students of both ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University and the University of Ottawa. In November 2014, EURUS &nbsp;graduate Numan Qardash delivered the donation to the Rotary Club of Kabul City to contribute to the Rotary\u2019s annual winter clothing drive. &nbsp;Luke Beer, President of the Kabul Rotary Club and EURUS alumnus, received the fund and would like to express his&nbsp;deepest gratitude to all students involved and to the greater Ottawa community. All proceeds from&nbsp;the donation will go towards buying warm clothes, blankets, and coal for Afghan families in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After&nbsp;their time at&nbsp;EURUS,&nbsp;&nbsp;Luke and Numan&nbsp;have worked&nbsp;in Afghanistan for several years in the private and development sectors. The EURUS community is very proud &nbsp;of them, and would like to also congratulate the ASA on this achievement!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014, the Afghan Student Association (ASA) in Ottawa collected $1,000 through fundraising events organized by students of both ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University and the University of Ottawa. In November 2014, EURUS &nbsp;graduate Numan Qardash delivered the donation to the Rotary Club of Kabul City to contribute to the Rotary\u2019s annual winter clothing drive. &nbsp;Luke Beer, President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6383,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6338\/revisions\/6383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}