{"id":125,"date":"2013-01-12T16:05:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T00:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pnwocm.org\/hfca\/?page_id=125"},"modified":"2018-03-03T06:55:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T14:55:24","slug":"meet-the-children","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/hfca\/?page_id=125","title":{"rendered":"Children of Jamaa Letu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Our Family&#8221; in Swahili, Jamaa Letu provides a safe haven for young Congolese victims of war, famine, poverty, and abandonment.<\/strong> The funds collected by the Hope for the Children of Africa task force have built a secure compound for the girls and boys, pay their school tuition, and provide their food, water, a bed, and medical needs. Efforts are made to reconnect families with abandoned children, often successfully.<\/p>\n<p>Once the children complete the equivalent of high school, they are no longer eligible to live at Jamaa Letu. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pnwumc.org\/hfca\/?page_id=240\">College scholarships<\/a> are established to help these young people become successful adults through education.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/hfca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Jamaa-Letu-Scholarships-Brochure.pdf\">here<\/a> for a brochure with additional information.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/hfca\/?page_id=858\">here <\/a>for photos of the orphans.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our Family&#8221; in Swahili, Jamaa Letu provides a safe haven for young Congolese victims of war, famine, poverty, and abandonment. The funds collected by the Hope for the Children of Africa task force have built a secure compound for the girls and boys, pay their school tuition, and provide their food, water, a bed, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/hfca\/?page_id=125\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Children of Jamaa Letu<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1267,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-125","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3kfv9-21","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/hfca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/hfca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/hfca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/hfca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/hfca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/hfca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/hfca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/hfca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/hfca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}