{"id":4203,"date":"2019-11-14T12:16:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T12:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/?p=4203"},"modified":"2019-11-14T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T12:16:51","slug":"penney-familys-visit-to-east-and-north-of-sri-lanka-a-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/?p=4203","title":{"rendered":"Penney family&#8217;s visit to East and North of Sri Lanka &#8211; A Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Solihull Junior\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">School Head Master, Mr Mark Penney, and his family spent a week (between 22\/10 &#8211; 29\/10)\u00a0with AssistRR volunteers in the north and east of Sri Lanka during their half term holiday. They covered a lot of grounds\u00a0from Amaparai to Pandatharippu (north western corner of Jaffna\u00a0<\/span>peninsula<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">) including Vavuniya and Mankulam\u00a0during a 6-day tour. Based on their\u00a0<\/span>whirlwind<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0tour, Mr Penney has written a report,\u00a0which is given in this link,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Penney-family-visit-to-the-Tamil-North-East-of-Sri-Lanka-October-2019-2.pdf\">Penney family visit to the North &amp; East of Sri Lanka-October 2019-2<\/a>. Y<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">ou can recall that he raised nearly \u00a350k in the UK and USA to\u00a0provide fishing boats to families who were affected by the war. 10 of these boats were donated during their recent visit and they met many beneficiary families who received boats in April 2019. Please kindly read his report that is very informative and an\u00a0eye opener.\u00a0Thousands of families are still struggling to feed themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP0566-copy.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP0410-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"IMGP0410 copy\" src=\"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP0410-copy-e1573732787745.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"IMGP0566 copy\" src=\"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP0566-copy-e1573732844270.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP0640-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"IMGP0640 copy\" src=\"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP0640-copy-e1573732937570.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP0626-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"IMGP0626 copy\" src=\"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP0626-copy-e1573732919918.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solihull Junior\u00a0School Head Master, Mr Mark Penney, and his family spent a week (between 22\/10 &#8211; 29\/10)\u00a0with AssistRR volunteers in the north and east of Sri Lanka during their half term holiday. They covered a lot of grounds\u00a0from Amaparai to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/?p=4203\">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\/4203"}],"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=4203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4213,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203\/revisions\/4213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}