{"id":168,"date":"2026-09-01T19:42:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/?p=168"},"modified":"2026-09-01T19:42:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:42:25","slug":"global-citizenship-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/2026\/09\/01\/global-citizenship-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Global citizenship in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-169 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/files\/2026\/09\/Timothy-Sam_Event_Sept-9th_-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/files\/2026\/09\/Timothy-Sam_Event_Sept-9th_-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/files\/2026\/09\/Timothy-Sam_Event_Sept-9th_-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/files\/2026\/09\/Timothy-Sam_Event_Sept-9th_.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>What does it mean to be a global citizen in an interconnected world? <\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Join Timothy Sam, Director of Civic Education and Citizens\u2019 Engagement from the Government of Sierra Leone, who will be discussing the importance of youth engagement, civic participation, and global partnerships at UFV. Timothy Sam has extensive experience in youth leadership and global development in West and Central Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be held on <strong>Wed. Sept. 9, 2026, 1-2:30 pm, in B101<\/strong>. The event is open to all, and there will be snacks and refreshments from 2-2:30 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it mean to be a global citizen in an interconnected world? Join Timothy Sam, Director of Civic Education and Citizens\u2019 Engagement from the Government of Sierra Leone, who will be discussing the importance of youth engagement, civic participation, and global partnerships at UFV. Timothy Sam has extensive experience in youth leadership and global &#8230; <a title=\"Global citizenship in action\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/2026\/09\/01\/global-citizenship-in-action\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrate-impact","category-global-development-studies","category-sojust-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sojust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}