{"562751":{"#nid":"562751","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How a Favela Kid Became Brazil\u0027s Top Badminton Player","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKirk Bowman, associate chair and Jon Wilcox Term Professor of Soccer, Global Politics, and Society from the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in Georgia Tech\u0027s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts was quoted in\u0026nbsp;\u201cHow a Favela Kid Became Brazil\u0027s Top Badminton Player\u201d for \u003Cem\u003EThe Christian Science Monitor\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou go into the favelas and it\u2019s chaos,\u201d says Kirk Bowman, a political scientist at Georgia Tech and co-founder of Rise Up \u0026amp; Care, an American NGO that gives funding to established projects like Miratus in poor communities around the world. \u201cBut you walk into [Miratus] and it is order and purpose and\u0026nbsp;happ[iness].\u0026nbsp;It\u2019s a totally different world, and it\u2019s no wonder that these kids, their grades improve, relationships in the family improve. They have role models and are achieving goals at a really young age.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Olympics\/2016\/0813\/How-a-favela-kid-became-Brazil-s-top-badminton-player\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"32716","created_gmt":"2016-08-15 12:50:49","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:19","author":"Hayden Russell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"recycling event","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Olympics\/2016\/0813\/How-a-favela-kid-became-Brazil-s-top-badminton-player","dateline":{"date":"2016-08-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-08-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"405631":{"id":"405631","type":"image","title":"Kirk S. Bowman","body":null,"created":"1449254135","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:35:35","changed":"1475895129","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:09","alt":"Kirk S. Bowman","file":{"fid":"76090","name":"kirkbowmanweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/kirkbowmanweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/kirkbowmanweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":36256,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/kirkbowmanweb.jpg?itok=mvz-J9Lo"}}},"media_ids":["405631"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"165011","name":"2016 Rio Olympics"},{"id":"1747","name":"Kirk Bowman"},{"id":"169213","name":"Reimagine Rio"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}