{"id":8006,"date":"2018-12-19T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/cecilia-braekhus-abre-escuela-en-uganda\/"},"modified":"2018-12-19T18:43:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T18:43:39","slug":"cecilia-braekhus-opens-school-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/cecilia-braekhus-opens-school-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Cecilia Braekhus opens school in Uganda!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0Cecilia Braekhus opens school in Uganda!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">After finishing out her boxing \u00a0year in \u2018Grand\u00a0 Style\u2019 on December 8, 2018, \u2018<b>The First Lady\u2019 Cecilia Braekhus\u00a0<\/b>travelled to Uganda to<b>\u00a0<\/b>open the \u2018First Lady Primary School, a high school located just outside the capital city of Uganda.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Braekhus has been working on the project for three years with \u2018Bring Children From the Streets\u2019, a Norwegian\/Ugandan group headed by Richard Kiwanuka. The Opening Ceremonies took place this past Sunday, December 16.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a high school for both girls and boys.\u00a0It is located a little outside the capital, in a safe and idyllic setting.\u00a0It is intended for children from the slums in Kampala, who get an opportunity for an education, as well as some children from other areas.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhen I leave Uganda, the school will still be there.\u00a0And the past experience is that those who educate and move on and graduate, come back and help those who are in need. So it will be a positive circle.\u00a0It&#8217;s a wonderful process to participate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe new buildings are stunningly beautiful. It\u2019s been all we dreamed that it would be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Braekhus improved to 35-0 defending all of her undisputed titles on Saturday, December 8, 2018 with a dominant ten-round decision over world ranked contender Aleksandra Madgziak-Lopes at the Stubhub Center in Carson, CA. The\u00a0 victory headlined the final HBO Boxing telecast marking Braekhus\u2019 second appearance on the premium cable channel in 2018 and capping off a remarkable year filled with tremendous performances inside the ring and a wealth of accolades outside.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Photos\/Team Braekhus<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Media Contact<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Bernie Bahrmasel<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Double B Publicity<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Phone: + 1 773 592-2986<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s3\">Email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:BernieBahrmasel@yahoo.com\"><span class=\"s4\">BernieBahrmasel@yahoo.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Twitter: @BernieBahrmasel<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Cecilia Braekhus opens school in Uganda! \u00a0 After finishing out her boxing \u00a0year in \u2018Grand\u00a0 Style\u2019 on December 8, 2018, \u2018The First Lady\u2019 Cecilia Braekhus\u00a0travelled to<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}