{"id":317,"date":"2018-04-12T19:29:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T19:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/?p=317"},"modified":"2018-04-12T19:32:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T19:32:23","slug":"comfort-for-a-scared-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Comfort for a scared child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refugee children have seen things and experienced the type of fear that will give any parent nightmares.<\/p>\n<p>Giving them something as simple as a knitted doll can provide a world of comfort and security. A soft anchor in a terrifying world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20171025-WA0002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-318\" src=\"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20171025-WA0002-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Trauma teddies that will bring comfort for refugee children\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20171025-WA0002-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20171025-WA0002-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20171025-WA0002-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20171025-WA0002.jpg 774w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20171027-WA0001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-320\" src=\"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20171027-WA0001-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20171027-WA0001\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20171027-WA0001-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20171027-WA0001-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20171027-WA0001-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20171027-WA0001.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20171115-WA0000.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-321\" src=\"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20171115-WA0000-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20171115-WA0000\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20171115-WA0000-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20171115-WA0000-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20171115-WA0000-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20171115-WA0000.jpg 774w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thank you to every one of our volunteers who gave their time and a piece of their heart by knitting teddies for the refugee\u00a0children in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you would like to follow there example, <a title=\"A Simple Teddy Bear - Patricia Smith\" href=\"http:\/\/forum.knit-a-square.com\/forum\/topics\/a-simple-teddy-bear-patricia\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>is a step by step guide to knit your own teddies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And if you&#8217;re not a knitter, you can still bring comfort to the children by <a title=\"Donate\" href=\"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/?page_id=19\" target=\"_blank\">donating <\/a>toward the cost of distributing the teddies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refugee children have seen things and experienced the type of fear that will give any parent nightmares. Giving them something as simple as a knitted doll can provide a world of comfort and security. A soft anchor in a terrifying world. Thank you to every one of our volunteers who gave their time and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,2,3,6],"tags":[26,29,28,30,25,27,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalrelief.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}