{"id":15,"date":"2007-11-04T16:50:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T10:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/2007\/11\/04\/childrens-charity\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T16:32:43","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T10:32:43","slug":"childrens-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/04\/childrens-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week there was a lot of activity across the street from us. Hundrends of school children dressed in their best outfits standing outside a local community organization awaiting a donation. A donation that could very well save their lives&#8230;<br \/>\nThe winter months are fast approaching in Bangladesh; one only has to breathe the night air to taste the smoke from the countless fires cropping up on more and more street corners keeping the poor warm. A surprising number of people die each year during the winter months throughout the country from the cold. Add to this a surge of dengue carrying mosquitos and the children in one of the world&#8217;s most densely populated and poorest countries are at serious risk.<br \/>\nThanks to the efforts of <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.scaw.org\/index.html\">Sleeping Children Around the World<\/a>, a $30 CAD donation provides poor children a sleeping kit which includes locally made clothing, a mosquito net and some school supplies along with a sleeping mat and a blanket. The volunteers of this grassroots <a HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sleeping_Children_Around_the_World\">Canadian charity<\/a> gave away 7,500 such kits throughout the country; over 800 per day for two days in Dhaka alone.<\/p>\n<p><a REL=\"lightbox[blankets]\" HREF=\"\/images\/full\/banket01.jpg\"><img ALT=\"Sleepingkit donation\" SRC=\"\/images\/thumbs\/thbanket05.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a REL=\"lightbox[blankets]\" HREF=\"\/images\/full\/banket02.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a REL=\"lightbox[blankets]\" HREF=\"\/images\/full\/banket03.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a REL=\"lightbox[blankets]\" HREF=\"\/images\/full\/banket04.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a REL=\"lightbox[blankets]\" HREF=\"\/images\/full\/banket05.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week there was a lot of activity across the street from us. Hundrends of school children dressed in their best outfits standing outside a local community organization awaiting a donation. A donation that could very well save their lives&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/04\/childrens-charity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}