  {"id":97073,"date":"2019-05-22T13:59:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T23:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=97073"},"modified":"2019-05-23T07:55:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T17:55:17","slug":"manoa-peace-corps-uganda-domingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/22\/manoa-peace-corps-uganda-domingo\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa graduate to begin Peace Corps service in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_97091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97091\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-peace-corps-uganda-domingo-headshot-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Joshua Domingo\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-97091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-peace-corps-uganda-domingo-headshot-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-peace-corps-uganda-domingo-headshot-93x130.jpg 93w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-peace-corps-uganda-domingo-headshot.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Domingo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\/\">Shidler College of Business<\/a> graduate <strong>Joshua Domingo<\/strong> of Honolulu has been accepted into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacecorps.gov\/\">Peace Corps<\/a> and will depart for Uganda at the end of May to begin training as a business development volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I cannot imagine any other organization would provide so many opportunities to share my skills on a global stage,&rdquo; said Domingo, who graduated from the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a> in fall 2017 with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in <a href=\"http:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\/majors\/management-information-systems\">management information systems<\/a>. &ldquo;I hope to give a better perspective of where I come from in America and highlight the place I am going serve, Uganda.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\/freeman-scholars\">Freeman Scholar<\/a> at Shidler College of Business also worked as an information technology specialist at the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/coe.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Education<\/a> and volunteered in the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa photo lab before his Peace Corps posting.<\/p>\n<p>During the first three months of his service, Domingo will live with a host family in Uganda to become fully immersed in the country&#8217;s language and culture. After acquiring the necessary skills to assist his community, Domingo will be sworn into service and assigned to a community in Uganda, where he will live and work for two years with the local people.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> Related <em><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> News<\/em> story:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/17\/peace-corps-prep-program-uh-manoa\/\"> Peace Corps Prep Program launched at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa<\/a>, January 17, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;I hope to learn more about other cultures and what values others live by,&rdquo; Domingo said. &ldquo;I&#8217;m most excited to learn how people live and work. I want to understand the inner motivations of other people so that in the future, as a young leader, I will be able to empathize and speak genuinely with others who hold a different viewpoint than mine.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Peace Corps is one of the programs in the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/undergrad\/oavcue\/\">Office of Undergraduate Education<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/undergrad\/servicelearn\/about-peace-corps\/\">Civic and Community Engagement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;Based partially on a Peace Corp press release.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shidler College of Business alumnus Joshua Domingo will receive training to become a business development volunteer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[90,679,95,146,9],"class_list":["post-97073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-college-of-education","tag-shidler-college-of-business","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97073"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97119,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97073\/revisions\/97119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}