{"id":154536,"date":"2020-04-20T12:12:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=154536"},"modified":"2020-04-22T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T16:21:13","slug":"alumnus-shelters-in-honduras-to-save-umw-born-nonprofit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2020\/04\/20\/alumnus-shelters-in-honduras-to-save-umw-born-nonprofit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Shelters in Honduras to Save UMW-Born Nonprofit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_154537\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154537\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-154537\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/Unknown-19-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"2007 alumnus Shin Fujiyama inaugurates a school built by his nonprofit, Students Helping Honduras, which he started at UMW. SHH has built 55 schools in the impoverished country, which is currently on lockdown. While much of his staff have been evacuated, Fujiyama stayed behind in Honduras to care for 24 orphaned children. Photo courtesy of SHH. \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/Unknown-19-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/Unknown-19-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/Unknown-19.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-154537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2007 alumnus Shin Fujiyama inaugurates a school built by his nonprofit, Students Helping Honduras, which he started at UMW. SHH has built 55 schools in the impoverished country, which is currently on lockdown. While much of his staff have been evacuated, Fujiyama stayed behind in Honduras to care for 24 orphaned children. Photo courtesy of SHH.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Phoning it in isn\u2019t an option for Shin Fujiyama \u201907. At UMW, he threw himself into every assignment, task and responsibility \u2013 from serving hungry students in Seacobeck to organizing a thousand-person walkathon.<\/p>\n<p>Now, living in Honduras in the midst of a global pandemic, Fujiyama is focused on rescuing the nonprofit he started at Mary Washington,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shhkids.org\/\">Students Helping Honduras<\/a>\u00a0(SHH). While his American and European staff were evacuated due to the coronavirus threat, Fujiyama stayed behind to care for 24 orphaned kids at a children\u2019s home he founded. To keep his dream alive of building schools across the impoverished country, he is relying on support from former professors and fellow alumni.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy conviction to see this through has always been strong,\u201d said Fujiyama, who started SHH 14 years ago with sister Cosmo, then a student at William &amp; Mary. Since graduation from UMW, he\u2019s lived in Honduras and oversees the nonprofit, which has over 50 chapters nationwide and has seen thousands of volunteers over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Then came COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a chance Honduras will face food shortages, civil unrest and massive outbreaks of the virus,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need to confront those challenges together.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/20\/alumnus-shelters-in-honduras-to-save-umw-born-nonprofit\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoning it in isn\u2019t an option for Shin Fujiyama \u201907. At UMW, he threw himself into every assignment, task and responsibility \u2013 from serving hungry students in Seacobeck to organizing a thousand-person walkathon. Now, living in Honduras in the midst of a global pandemic, Fujiyama is focused on rescuing the nonprofit he started at Mary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28590,"featured_media":154537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[23903,23902,548,22670,96,871],"class_list":{"0":"post-154536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-whats-new-umw","8":"tag-campus-christian-community","9":"tag-cosmo-fujiyama","10":"tag-jmcclurk","11":"tag-shin-fujiyama","12":"tag-shumphre","13":"tag-students-helping-honduras","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}