{"id":26053251,"date":"2020-05-04T07:44:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T04:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/happy-1st-of-may-moving-story\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T04:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T02:04:28","slug":"happy-1st-of-may-moving-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/happy-1st-of-may-moving-story\/","title":{"rendered":"We wish you a happy 1st of May with a very moving story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/chios_education_metadrasi_7.jpg\" alt=\"Metadrasi -\" class=\"wp-image-14130\" title=\"Metadrasi -\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>M\u0395\u03a4\u0391drasi wishes you all a happy 1st of May and shares with you a very moving story of an unaccompanied girl as sent to us by Maria, a member of our team in the Transit Accommodation Facility for Unaccompanied Minors in Samos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;One day I bought flowers for myself and I also bought 4-5 extra to plant in the Accommodation Facility. I will never forget Nadira\u2019s* joy&#8230; A girl so timid, reserved, with permanent sadness in her eyes&#8230;<br>Those eyes opened wide, they lit up, her smile huge!<br>Taking the flower out of the little pot to plant it, she held it in her two palms, touching its roots with her thumbs&#8230; She spoke to it&#8230; She spoke to it in whisper and so gently.<br>She kept talking to the flowers after we had planted them. And in the following days&#8230; Some kids made fun of her for it.<br>Almost crying one day she told me she was being laughed at, for talking to the flowers as if they were her mom&#8230; And how can you comfort her in that moment, when your knees are shaking by the revelation of this child-flower relationship&#8230; When, even in the memory, all you want to do is hug this child&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*The girl&#8217;s name has changed to protect her personal data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>METAdrasi&#8217;s Transit Accommodation Facility for Unaccompanied Minors in Samos is supported by the Kahane Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0395\u03a4\u0391drasi wishes you all a happy 1st of May and shares with you a very&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":388486,"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":[124],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-26053251","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\/26053251","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=26053251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26053251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26053251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26053251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26053251"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=26053251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}