{"id":8812,"date":"2009-04-05T00:35:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T19:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=8812"},"modified":"2019-04-30T00:39:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T19:09:19","slug":"amma-inspires-a-devotee-to-reach-out-to-the-traumatised-children-of-gaza%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2009\/8812\/","title":{"rendered":"Amma inspires a devotee to reach out to the traumatised children of Gaza\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hearing about the\nterrible suffering of the children of Gaza, and a plea for cards to be sent to\nthose children severely traumatised, a devotee from Canada felt deeply moved to\nwrite cards to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the\npracticalities proved to be challenging. What could be done by just one person?\nShe realised that the message would need translating, she didn\u2019t know any of\ntheir names, and what to say? What would be the best way to send a loving message\nlimited to a card?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took some weeks\nof effort emailing to try and get translations but with no success. Then there\nwas a breakthrough. A very kind translation company based in the UK were so\nmoved by the request, that they gave the translation into Arabic for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2019\/04\/card-for-gaza.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2019\/04\/card-for-gaza.jpg 500w, https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2019\/04\/card-for-gaza-450x233.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>She had an idea to\nput stickers in the cards of animals and things the children would enjoy. On\neach card and envelop was placed a heart and the message: \u2018To a little girl\u2019 or\n\u2018To a little boy\u2019. Inside the message read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cHello from Canada<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You are in our prayers everyday.\nYou are loved. May you be safe and happy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please share these stickers with\nyour friends who are sad or sick.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Your friend<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sophie\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty\nfour cards were sent, and within them many stickers to be shared. By giving the\nchildren could feel they can help others, even in a small way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearing about the terrible suffering of the children of Gaza, and a plea for cards to be sent to those children severely traumatised, a devotee from Canada felt deeply moved to write cards to them. But the practicalities proved to be challenging. What could be done by just one person? She realised that the message [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-8812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-relief","tag-compassion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8815,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812\/revisions\/8815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}