{"id":102,"date":"2020-11-15T05:29:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T05:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2020-11-15T05:29:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T05:29:12","slug":"celebration-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/15\/celebration-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration for children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was Mahasamadhi day \u2013 Covid ensured that we had to change somethings.\u00a0 So the children of our flying birds, who were used to having a sumptuous lunch at the bhandara and then playing in the swings, had it differently this time.\u00a0 Some tried sneaking into the tent from the back, some came in groups with an older kid directing them, some took refuge of their mothers to get their tray, all in all, they had great stories relating each one\u2019s adventure.\u00a0 And with what pride, they walked back carrying those take away food trays, as it was something new for them.\u00a0One young girl, even got the attention of a young mason going for work, that, \u201cLook what I have !\u2019 Finally off at the swings, the kids asked, \u201cMa\u2019am when are you opening school?\u201d\u00a0 The only consolation\u2026 they are having a small Diwali gift distribution today as it is both Diwali and Children\u2019s day.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another milestone achieved has been to develop a book for children on water and sanitation issue.  We had attended a webinar with the Water Secretary, Government of India and in the live question and answer session, he exhorted all to write as much as possible on water issues, especially those related with women and children.  This endeavour of ours is the first in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was Mahasamadhi day \u2013 Covid ensured that we had to change somethings.\u00a0 So the children of our flying birds, who were used to having a sumptuous lunch at the bhandara and then playing in the swings, had it differently this time.\u00a0 Some tried sneaking into the tent from the back, some came in groups … Celebration for children<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,16],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-covid","tag-festivities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}