{"id":470,"date":"2016-12-07T23:03:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T05:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/?p=470"},"modified":"2018-03-16T12:09:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T18:09:52","slug":"wool-aid-supports-syrian-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"Wool-Aid Supports Syrian Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wool-Aid supports children in Syria through\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.syriarelief.org.uk\/\">Syria Relief<\/a> in the UK, which then transports our Wool-Aid items to Turkey so they can be taken into Syria itself. Our items are sometimes distributed in the refugee camps as well. The mission of Syria Relief is to &#8220;relieve the suffering and support the future,&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0providing support and care to those 7.6 million internally displaced by the conflict, and\u00c2\u00a0helping to reduce the mass migration from Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Already this winter, Wool-Aid has shipped\u00c2\u00a019 boxes containing<\/p>\n<p>Hats: <strong>1265<\/strong><br \/>\nVests: <strong>146<\/strong><br \/>\nMittens: <strong>113<\/strong><br \/>\nSweaters: <strong>40<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For future shipments, we will focus on<strong> hats (especially balaclavas), vests, <\/strong>and<strong> mittens<\/strong>, which were the items specifically requested &#8212; in sizes for <strong>children 9 to 12 years old<\/strong>. They have requested that items not include the color red, and we avoid sending any items that could be considered a camouflage colorway.<\/p>\n<p>We continue to ship warm, woolen clothing\u00c2\u00a0to Syria Relief on a regular basis, as we\u00c2\u00a0fill boxes of vests, hats, and mittens in the appropriate sizes and colors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wool-Aid supports children in Syria through\u00c2\u00a0Syria Relief in the UK, which then transports our Wool-Aid items to Turkey so they can be taken into Syria itself. Our items are sometimes distributed in the refugee camps as well. The mission of Syria Relief is to &#8220;relieve the suffering and support the future,&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0providing support and care to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-37","category-campaigns","category-syria-relief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}