{"id":68062,"date":"2021-11-05T18:13:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T22:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=68062"},"modified":"2021-11-08T11:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T16:20:55","slug":"donations-sought-for-aboriginal-head-start-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/donations-sought-for-aboriginal-head-start-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday season donations sought for Aboriginal Head Start Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Aboriginal program in Edmonton that works to strengthen Indigenous children\u2019s school-readiness skills and cultural foundations is teaching kids the respectful way to give and receive gifts while helping others over the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Aboriginal Head Start program\u2019s Santa\u2019s Helper Donation Drive is collecting donations of toiletries or any useful item laying around the house that can be given as a Christmas gift.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cOur program does serve some at-risk population,\u201d said Executive Director Melissa Nollski. \u201cAnd so with the struggles of COVID[-19] and the struggles of everyday life, some of our families just can\u2019t afford anything, and so it\u2019s our goal to always make it memorable for the children and the families that are in our program and we try really hard to just make a difference\u2026. Our goal in the month of December is to teach our children about giving, teach them about receiving, teach them about what it means to do those things and really just change someone\u2019s day \u2014 put a smile on their face.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Donations can be dropped off at #204-13245 Ave. \u2014146 Street until Nov. 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Listen to the full CFWE report below for more details about this initiative:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Aboriginal program in Edmonton that works to strengthen Indigenous children\u2019s school-readiness skills and cultural foundations is teaching kids the respectful way to give and receive gifts while helping others over the holiday season. The Aboriginal Head Start program\u2019s Santa\u2019s Helper Donation Drive is collecting donations of toiletries or any useful item laying around the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":68066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[10519,8603,10520],"radio":[9847],"origine":[268,267,228],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68062"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=68062"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=68062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}