{"id":26014298,"date":"2017-07-27T10:30:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T07:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/a-volunteer-recounts\/"},"modified":"2017-07-27T10:30:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T07:30:16","slug":"a-volunteer-recounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/a-volunteer-recounts\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWherever there\u2019s a land, there\u2019s a home.\u201d A volunteer recounts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skylar, a student at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bc.edu\/schools\/gssw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Boston College &#8211; School of Social Work<\/a>, offered volunteer work in  in Lesvos in Spring. The three months she spent with the children and the facility\u2019s staff marked her memories and inspired her to appreciate life differently, as revealed through her own words at her posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Boston College<\/a> blog. Below are some of our favorite parts:<\/p>\n<p>One night when my roommate and I were talking, he told me, \u201cSkylar\u2026 \u2018Opou gis kai patris,\u2019\u201d which is a Greek saying that essentially means, \u201cWherever there\u2019s a land there\u2019s a home.\u201d I love this phrase so much as it wonderfully expresses the Greek value of hospitality that I have so graciously benefitted from.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been humbling to watch these boys from unspeakable traumas forget their troubles for at least a few small moments of recreational fun.<\/p>\n<p>I asked one boy once what his biggest wish is, and he said, \u201cMy family\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When I asked a boy what he dreams about at night, he said, \u201cTo see my mother\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I asked a boy, \u201cWhat do you boys need the most right now?\u201d (thinking I could raise money or buy them something) and he said, \u201cHope\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Skylar&#8217;s experiences in our accommodation facility in Lesvos, through her posts:<\/p>\n<p> regarding METAdrasi&#8217;s Transit Accommodation Facilities for Unaccompanied Minors in Lesvos, Samos, Chios, Thessaloniki and Athens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/a-volunteer-recounts\">Three months with the unaccompanied children in METAdrasi&#8217;s Accommodation Facility in Lesvos that left strong memories&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":386920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[216,541],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-26014298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-transit-accommodation-facility-for-unaccompanied-minors","tag-volunteers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26014298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26014298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26014298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26014298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26014298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26014298"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=26014298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}