{"id":476,"date":"2018-03-16T12:31:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T18:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/?p=476"},"modified":"2018-03-16T13:41:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T19:41:47","slug":"2018-kyegu-monastery-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"2018: Kyegu Monastery in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, we renewed Wool-Aid support for young monks and elders at the Kyegu Monastery in Gamrau, India.<\/p>\n<p>These young monks are boys of Tibetan background who are living at a branch of the Kyegu Monastery in India, about 9 hours drive north of Delhi, that was founded in 1965 by Tibetan refugees who fled Kyegu.<\/p>\n<p>There are now\u00c2\u00a032 young monks ages 7 to 17 living there (up from 19 a few years ago), plus 6 elders. Winter weather in Gamrau is severe, and this group has always struggled to stay warm.<\/p>\n<p>We supported them this winter with:<\/p>\n<p>45 sweaters<br \/>\n80 pairs of socks<br \/>\n47 hats<br \/>\n40 pairs of mittens<br \/>\n43 blankets (40&#8243; \u00c3\u2014 60&#8243; or so)<\/p>\n<p>Colors appropriate for the young monks in Gamrau are maroon, red, brown, and gold. Blankets can be in other colors, and even multi-colored.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-478 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/received_1563015420452843-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/received_1563015420452843-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/received_1563015420452843-768x432.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/received_1563015420452843-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/received_1563015420452843.jpeg 1794w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These young monks are happy with\u00c2\u00a0their new, warm blankets and clothing. They will be much warmer thanks to Wool-Aid!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, we renewed Wool-Aid support for young monks and elders at the Kyegu Monastery in Gamrau, India. These young monks are boys of Tibetan background who are living at a branch of the Kyegu Monastery in India, about 9 hours drive north of Delhi, that was founded in 1965 by Tibetan refugees who fled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,13,3,19,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","category-active-campaigns","category-campaigns","category-report","category-young-monks-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","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=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wool-aid.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}