{"id":4010,"date":"2018-10-21T21:56:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T20:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2018-10-21T21:56:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T20:56:17","slug":"solihull-schools-continued-support-to-assist-rrs-endeavours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/?p=4010","title":{"rendered":"Solihull School&#8217;s Continued Support to Assist RR&#8217;s Endeavours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Solihull School in the West Midlands, UK, has been contributing to the needs of our victims of war back home since 2009. Recently, two 13-year old,\u00a0Year-8 pupils, Conor &amp; Harvey, completed running 9 kM in the\u00a0&#8220;Race the Train&#8221;challenge to raise funds for 3 charities on 18\u00a0August 2018. They chose Assist RR as one of the beneficiary\u00a0charities. Assist RR was introduced to the boys by Junior School Headmaster Mr\u00a0Mark Penney. Harvey, who has a Sri Lankan heritage, did visit Sri Lanka recently\u00a0and felt that\u00a0there is so much still to do to repair the damage left by the 28 years of war.\u00a0Conor and Harvey\u00a0raised nearly \u00a31800 and donated around \u00a3600 towards building a shelter for an IDP family\u00a0in Sampoor. We are very grateful to Conor and Harvey for their amazing\u00a0fund\u00a0raising effort and their contribution.\u00a0Assist RR donated nearly 100 reading glasses to a Vanni hospital in Aug 2018. The eye doctor told that their patients\u00a0would benefit from frames and asked whether Assist RR can provide more of them. Mark Penney heard this story and, as a result, made an appeal to the School Community\u00a0for frames. They collected nearly 950 frames, mostly brand new from a parent, who works for an Optician. A parent also donated a foci-meter, used\u00a0to verify the correct prescription in a pair of reading glasses\u00a0Solihull pupils,\u00a0Francesca,\u00a0Amelia and their\u00a0friends also collected 255 women&#8217;s\u00a0trainers to be donated to\u00a0girls\u00a0of\u00a0a school in Kilinichchi.\u00a0Mr Penney, on his way to SCOT&#8217;s dinner as the chief guest on 20 Oct, dropped these items in London to be shipped to Sri Lanka. Assist RR\u2019s sincere gratitude to Solihull School community, in particular to Mr Penney and his family for their continued support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a id=\"LPlnk531383\" href=\"https:\/\/mydonate.bt.com\/fundraisers\/racethetrain\">https:\/\/mydonate.bt.com\/fundraisers\/racethetrain<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/PHOTO-2018-08-18-14-27-081.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"PHOTO-2018-08-18-14-27-08[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/PHOTO-2018-08-18-14-27-081-e1540155190940.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/PHOTO-2018-10-21-15-43-102.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"PHOTO-2018-10-21-15-43-10[2]\" src=\"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/PHOTO-2018-10-21-15-43-102-e1540155172329.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_9038-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"IMG_9038 copy\" src=\"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_9038-copy-e1540155134858.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/PHOTO-2018-10-21-15-45-161.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"PHOTO-2018-10-21-15-45-16[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/PHOTO-2018-10-21-15-45-161-e1540155154152.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solihull School in the West Midlands, UK, has been contributing to the needs of our victims of war back home since 2009. Recently, two 13-year old,\u00a0Year-8 pupils, Conor &amp; Harvey, completed running 9 kM in the\u00a0&#8220;Race the Train&#8221;challenge to raise &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/?p=4010\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4010"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4020,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions\/4020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}