{"id":1066,"date":"2015-06-11T11:24:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T10:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aags.azharacademy.org\/old\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2015-06-15T07:23:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T06:23:01","slug":"girls-give-gifts-to-sick-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aags.azharacademy.org\/old\/girls-give-gifts-to-sick-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls give gifts to sick children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1067\" alt=\"002\" src=\"https:\/\/aags.azharacademy.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/002.jpg\" width=\"606\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Forest gate students walked five miles to visit three london hospitals<\/h3>\n<p>A group of Forest Gate school girls walked \ufb01ve miles across London to deliver a bundle of presents to children\u2019s wards at the capital\u2019s hospitals.<br \/>\nAbout 25 Year 7 pupils from Azhar Academy Girls School, Rom- ford Road, collected books, board games and arts and crafts resourc- es which they then hand delivered to three hospitals on May 19 and 20. The lucky recipients were Uni- versity College London Hospital in Camden, Royal London Hospital in Tower Hamlets and COSMIC char- ity which is based at Westminster\u2019s<br \/>\nSt Mary\u2019s Hospital.<br \/>\nThe event was part of the Share a Smile fundraising walk, arranged by 1st Ethical, an educational char- ity which empowers Muslims to bene\ufb01t society through faith-based campaigns.The charity currently works with around 200 educational insti- tutes nationally to help students become more socially responsibleand active in their communities.<br \/>\nKarima Chowdhury, Islamic Per- sonal Social and Health Education co-ordinator at Azhar Academy said: \u201cCollecting gifts for sick chil- dren and delivering them to the hospitals was a very enriching ex- perience for the students and staff involved.<br \/>\n\u201cIt allowed our students to con- nect with children who are less for- tunate and taught them something profound about serving others.<br \/>\n\u201cOur students have de\ufb01nitely become much more emotionally intelligent after this campaign and appreciative over the blessing of good health which isn\u2019t always given much thought by the youth.<br \/>\nShe added the Share a Smile Walk left everyone who took part \u201csmiling with a wonderful sense of ful\ufb01lment and humility\u201d.<br \/>\nAs a thank you, the hospitals ar- ranged a tour for the students and play therapists from the hospitals delivered presentations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forest gate students walked five miles to visit three london hospitals A group of Forest Gate school girls walked \ufb01ve miles across London to deliver a bundle of presents to children\u2019s wards at the capital\u2019s hospitals. About 25 Year 7 pupils from Azhar Academy Girls School, Rom- ford Road, collected books, board games and arts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aags.azharacademy.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aags.azharacademy.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aags.azharacademy.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aags.azharacademy.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aags.azharacademy.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/aags.azharacademy.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/aags.azharacademy.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aags.azharacademy.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aags.azharacademy.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aags.azharacademy.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}