{"id":6683,"date":"2021-08-28T13:34:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T18:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2021-08-28T13:34:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T18:34:11","slug":"afghan-emigre-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/2021\/08\/28\/afghan-emigre-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Emigre Assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, members of Assistance League of Northern Virginia delivered to\u00a0Peter Lauten, Program Manager of Traveler&#8217;s Aid at Dulles Airport, outside Washington, DC,\u00a0an assortment of items that will be provided to Afghan evacuees. \u00a0We donated toiletries, crocheted blankets, clothing, and toys that will be provided to arriving refugees.\u00a0 Included in the delivery was more than 300 \u2018indoor frisbees,\u2019 which are soft circles of yarn that can be tossed inside and won\u2019t hurt people or furnishings. \u00a0Assistance League of Northern Virginia is extremely proud that we could provide a small measure of comfort to Afghan emigres as they begin their new lives in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to learn more about our chapter or join our creative and committed members in providing essential services to children and families, please visit our website,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/alnv.org\/\">alnv.org<\/a>, \u00a0If you would like to help ensure that we can continue supporting students and families in need in our community, please consider making a donation.\u00a0 \u00a0Use the \u201cDonate\u201d button on this page; or send a check to:\u00a0 Assistance League of Northern Virginia, P.O. Box 209, Herndon, VA\u00a0\u00a0 20172.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, members of Assistance League of Northern Virginia delivered to\u00a0Peter Lauten, Program Manager of Traveler&#8217;s Aid at Dulles Airport, outside Washington, DC,\u00a0an assortment of items that will be provided to Afghan evacuees. \u00a0We donated toiletries, crocheted blankets, clothing, and toys that will be provided to arriving refugees.\u00a0 Included in the delivery was more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30358,"featured_media":6682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6685,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions\/6685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}