{"id":229,"date":"2015-01-21T17:35:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T17:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2015-01-21T17:35:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T17:35:29","slug":"uganda-school-to-be-named-after-beatrice-mtetwa-human-rights-lawyer-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"Uganda School to be named after Beatrice Mtetwa, human rights lawyer in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/7_BM_ROL.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-230\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/7_BM_ROL.png\" alt=\"7_BM_ROL\" width=\"1622\" height=\"912\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/7_BM_ROL.png 1622w, http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/7_BM_ROL-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/7_BM_ROL-1024x575.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/7_BM_ROL-980x551.png 980w, http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/7_BM_ROL-573x322.png 573w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1622px) 100vw, 1622px\" \/><\/a>The Beatrice Mtetwa School for Girls is opening in Uganda on Jan.26th! Focusing on a curriculum about human rights and civic responsibility, the school is named after the inspiring human rights lawyer from Zimbabwe, Beatrice Mtetwa. The film that I produced in 2013 about her courageous work continues to screen and broadcast around the world. May these students be as inspired by Beatrice as I was filming with her.<\/p>\n<p>In this photo of Beatrice, she is walking in front of her elementary school in Manzini, Swaziland, where a teacher told her that she &#8220;had potential&#8221; and that she could be whatever she wanted to be.<\/p>\n<p>Determined to leave the rural &#8220;village life&#8221; behind where she was raised, Beatrice received a scholarship to the University of Edinburgh then went on to law school in Botswana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beatrice Mtetwa School for Girls is opening in Uganda on Jan.26th! Focusing on a curriculum about human rights and civic responsibility, the school is named after the inspiring human rights lawyer from Zimbabwe, Beatrice Mtetwa. The film that I produced in 2013 about her courageous work continues to screen and broadcast around the world.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/?p=229\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostonfilmvideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}