{"id":2949,"date":"2015-10-26T08:13:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T08:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2015-10-26T08:13:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T08:13:45","slug":"the-chance-to-be-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=2949","title":{"rendered":"The chance to be a child"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Falalay.co.uk%2F%3Fp%3D2949&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p>Our kids have often seen too much.<\/p>\n<p>They may have been taken to dubious nightclubs aged six,\u00c2 sent around to pick the pockets of the inebriated locals;\u00c2 been locked in a small room for three days with a younger sibling and no food wondering whether their mum would ever return;\u00c2 been treated like a slave, beaten daily\u00c2 and forced to sleep outdoors in the dog&#8217;s kennel; or lived in a cold, dark, rancid drainage canal with older kids constantly plying them with glue and at constant risk of rape, because the streets somehow seemed safer than home*.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, it is so important to remember that despite all that they have been through, the horrific things that they have seen and experienced in their short lives, that our children are just that: children.<\/p>\n<p>Alalay offers them a home, food, education, opportunities, a sense of belonging\u00c2 and love, but it also provides them with the chance to be a child again &#8211; to smile, run, laugh, sing and play. To enjoy spending time with their friends and momentarily forget about their past. Here are some of our kids just enjoying being kids on recent days out&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2949 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium gallery1'><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\/\/ <![CDATA[\r\n\tjQuery(document).ready(function () {\r\n\t\tjQuery(\".gallery1 a\").attr(\"rel\",\"gallery1\");\t\r\n\t\tjQuery('a[rel=\"gallery1\"]').colorbox({maxWidth:\"95%\", maxHeight:\"95%\",title: function(){ return jQuery(this).children().attr(\"alt\"); }, });\r\n\t});\r\n\/\/ ]]>\r\n<\/script>\n<dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC08446.jpg\" title=\"\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img src=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC08446-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/new-park-1024x611.jpg\" title=\"\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img src=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/new-park-300x179.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Alalay-football-new.jpg\" title=\"\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img src=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Alalay-football-new-300x218.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/swim.jpg\" title=\"\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img src=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/swim-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>*All of these stories are based on real events that have happened to our Alalay kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our kids have often seen too much. They may have been taken to dubious nightclubs aged six,\u00c2 sent around to pick the pockets of the inebriated locals;\u00c2 been locked in a small room for three days with a younger sibling &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=2949\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2956,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}