{"id":150190,"date":"2026-03-27T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150190\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:32:07","slug":"philadelphia-foundation-sending-8-girls-to-south-africa-for-leadership-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150190\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia foundation sending 8 girls to South Africa for leadership trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of community support, the Philadelphia-based KB Foundation has officially reached its fundraising goal to send eight women on the trip of a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation raised more than $25,000 to send the girls to South Africa on the first all-girls trip in the foundation&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>The students are traveling to South Africa as part of the foundation&#8217;s LEAP program, which focuses on global business, culture and leadership.<\/p>\n<p>During the trip, the group will explore Cape Town, connect with business leaders and get a firsthand look at how global trade impacts communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seeing that people were enjoying my conversation and putting their money towards our fundraiser, it was really heartwarming,&#8221; Alana Jones, a 15-year-old student, said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the educational experience, the group is also giving back.<\/p>\n<p>Through a service initiative, they&#8217;ve collected more than 200 pairs of shoes \u2014 both gently used and new \u2014 which they plan to distribute to communities they visit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are taking these shoes to give back to the communities while we&#8217;re there,&#8221; KB Foundation founder Kirk Berry said.<\/p>\n<p>The group is departing for South Africa on Saturday at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After weeks of community support, the Philadelphia-based KB Foundation has officially reached its fundraising goal to send eight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,69,71,70,12033],"class_list":["post-150190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}