{"id":26029874,"date":"2018-10-31T13:34:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T11:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/mother-child-space-asylum\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T13:26:09","slug":"mother-child-space-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/mother-child-space-asylum\/","title":{"rendered":"At METAdrasi&#8217;s Mother and Child Space at the Asylum Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"custom-slick-slider\"><div class=\"slider-item\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mother_child_space_metadrasi_a.png\" alt=\"Metadrasi -\" title=\"Metadrasi -\"><\/div><div class=\"slider-item\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mother_child_space_metadrasi_g.png\" alt=\"Metadrasi -\" title=\"Metadrasi -\"><\/div><div class=\"slider-item\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mother_child_space_metadrasi_h.png\" alt=\"Metadrasi -\" title=\"Metadrasi -\"><\/div><div class=\"slider-item\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mother_child_space_metadrasi_i-450x450.png\" alt=\"Metadrasi -\" title=\"Metadrasi -\"><\/div><\/div>In the special spaces created by METAdrasi at the Asylum Service in Athens and Thessaloniki, mothers can breast-feed and take care of their babies, while little children have the opportunity to play in a safe environment and be creatively occupied by our team members, with the valuable support of our volunteers. Together with the children we play, we have fun, we explore, we learn.<\/p>\n<p>The subjects we recently touched on are various: Greek language and traditions, world geography, recycling, nutrition and dental hygiene, colours and shapes, works of famous painters&#8230; Additionally, we made collages and other crafts, we took yoga lessons &#8211; a kind offer by two Yazidi girls &#8211; and we participated in stress-relieving art therapy activities!<\/p>\n<p>Warm thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">UNICEF<\/a>\u00a0for the baby care supplies, the educational material, the booklets in English, Arabic and Farsi and the many toys!<\/p>\n<p>Until today, in METAdrasi\u2019s Mother and Child Spaces, more than 10,000 mothers and 20,000 children, from newborns to 16-year-olds, have found care and support.<\/p>\n<p>Mother and Child Spaces operate thanks to the kind hospitality and support of the <a href=\"http:\/\/asylo.gov.gr\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Asylum Service<\/a>, with the valuable support of UNICEF and funding by the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/echo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">European Commission\u2019s Civil Protection &amp; Humanitarian Aid Operations Department (ECHO).<\/a><div class=\"custom-slick-slider\"><div class=\"slider-item\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mother_child_space_metadrasi_b-450x450.png\" alt=\"Metadrasi -\" title=\"Metadrasi -\"><\/div><div class=\"slider-item\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mother_child_space_metadrasi_c-450x450.png\" alt=\"Metadrasi -\" title=\"Metadrasi -\"><\/div><div class=\"slider-item\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mother_child_space_metadrasi_d-450x450.png\" alt=\"Metadrasi -\" title=\"Metadrasi -\"><\/div><div class=\"slider-item\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mother_child_space_metadrasi_e-450x450.png\" alt=\"Metadrasi -\" title=\"Metadrasi -\"><\/div><div class=\"slider-item\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mother_child_space_metadrasi_f-450x450.png\" alt=\"Metadrasi -\" title=\"Metadrasi -\"><\/div><div class=\"slider-item\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mother_child_space_metadrasi_j.png\" alt=\"Metadrasi -\" title=\"Metadrasi -\"><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/mother-child-space-asylum\">In the special spaces created by METAdrasi at the Asylum Service&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":388017,"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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-26029874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26029874","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26029874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26029874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26029874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26029874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26029874"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=26029874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}