{"id":67975,"date":"2025-12-11T22:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/67975\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:46:09","slug":"staten-island-educator-launches-campaign-for-africa-volunteer-teaching-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/67975\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island educator launches campaign for Africa volunteer teaching mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"O4MZXOHIWBFSNHEG4V3B7UOT64\">STATEN ISLAND, NY \u2014 A Staten Island educator is seeking community support for a volunteer mission aimed at bringing educational resources to underserved communities in Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"W5WZ3W34Q5B5TBC2JHPZGP72EU\">Michael Tenuto, a certified New York State teacher and Ph.D. candidate in Educational Leadership, has launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise $7,000 for a trip planned for August 2026. The funds will cover travel expenses, program costs, and supplies needed for the mission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RI5EDAGBKRBPRP54ECK7EXNK74\">Tenuto plans to provide educational support, tutoring, and literacy instruction to students in Africa. He also intends to deliver essential school and community supplies to families in need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NHUAGCIUNBG6RPLNB5QIUME3WA\">The fundraising campaign is active on GoFundMe at <a href=\"https:\/\/gofund.me\/fcf6c4e7f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/gofund.me\/fcf6c4e7f<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SJSOAVPX25EPNANNXPSPNU43GQ\">Tenuto described the upcoming mission as a personal and professional commitment to education, service, and global community impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, NY \u2014 A Staten Island educator is seeking community support for a volunteer mission aimed at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-67975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}