{"id":37121,"date":"2015-04-21T11:35:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T08:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=37121"},"modified":"2015-04-23T10:14:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T07:14:30","slug":"orphans-day-celebrated-at-damascus-countryside-sos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=37121","title":{"rendered":"Orphan&#8217;s Day celebrated at Damascus SOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus Countryside, SANA- The 6th Festivity of\u00a0the Orphan&#8217;s Day, held Monday at the SOS Children Villages&#8217; branch in Qudsaiya in Damascus\u00a0Countryside, included various activities\u00a0such as\u00a0art exhibitions, theatrical shows and\u00a0musical pieces.<\/p>\n<p>The event was organized by the Child Culture\u00a0Department at the Ministry of Culture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/193.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-37124 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/193-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/193-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/193-150x80.jpg 150w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/193.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The SOS children embodied their dreams and hops\u00a0through their paintings and sculptures as they drew a painting dubbed &#8220;I Draw My Homeland\u00a0with Colors&#8221; through which they expressed their love to Syria and their hope that it will<br \/>\nalways be bright similar to their colors.<\/p>\n<p>A theatrical show titled Our Green Land was also\u00a0performed by the orphans with the aim of preserving the nature, in addition to performing\u00a0several songs and musical pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Culture Minister Tawfiq al-Imam said\u00a0that governmental and civil bodies provide support to SOS which takes care of the orphans who\u00a0lost their parents in different circumstances.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-37126 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/325-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/325-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/325-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/325.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Al-Imam indicated that the festivity aims at\u00a0enhancing the values and positive ideas to the children through the teamwork as the Ministry\u00a0worked on training about 140 children through the SOS cadre.<\/p>\n<p>The children expressed happiness to participate in\u00a0the festivity, wishing that the crisis in Syria will end and that Syria return better than\u00a0ever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/424.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-37123 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/424-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/424-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/424-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/424.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For her part, Head of the Child Culture Department\u00a0Malak Yasin said that the Ministry annually celebrates the Orphan&#8217;s Day with the aim of\u00a0boosting the positive values to the children and to enhance their talents and\u00a0abilities and to integrate them into society.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian SOS was established in 1975 and it\u00a0opened its first children village in 1981 with the aim of creating substitute families to take\u00a0care of the orphans and to help them build their life and future and be active members of the\u00a0society.<\/p>\n<p>R. al-Jazaeri \/ Barry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus Countryside, SANA- The 6th Festivity of\u00a0the Orphan&#8217;s Day, held Monday at the SOS Children Villages&#8217; branch in Qudsaiya in Damascus\u00a0Countryside, included various activities\u00a0such as\u00a0art exhibitions, theatrical shows and\u00a0musical pieces. The event was organized by the Child Culture\u00a0Department at the Ministry of Culture. The SOS children embodied their dreams and hops\u00a0through their paintings and sculptures &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":37125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[498,455],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-damascus-countryside","category-governorates-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}