{"id":35926,"date":"2021-08-25T21:21:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T12:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/scottish-charity-linda-norgrove-urges-raab-to-help-evacuate-two-afghan-aid-workers"},"modified":"2021-08-25T21:21:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T12:21:31","slug":"scottish-charity-urges-raab-to-help-evacuate-two-afghan-aid-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35926","title":{"rendered":"Scottish charity urges Raab to help evacuate two Afghan aid workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Female employees work for Linda Norgrove foundation, set up by parents of aid worker, which finds scholarships for Afghan women<\/p>\n<p>The foreign secretary has been urged to help evacuate two Afghan aid workers employed by a Scottish charity set up in the memory of the kidnapped aid worker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/linda-norgrove\">Linda Norgrove<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Norgrove was killed during an attempted rescue by US special forces after she was kidnapped in Afghanistan in 2010. Her parents, Lorna and John Norgrove, set up <a href=\"http:\/\/lindanorgrovefoundation.org\/\">a foundation<\/a> in her name which has helped secure scholarships for 200 Afghan women, 100 of whom are training to be doctors.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/scottish-charity-linda-norgrove-urges-raab-to-help-evacuate-two-afghan-aid-workers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female employees work for Linda Norgrove foundation, set up by parents of aid worker, which finds scholarships for Afghan womenThe foreign secretary has been urged to help evacuate two Afghan aid workers employed by a Scottish charity set up in the mem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2479,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,2190,561,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-charities","category-scotland","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35927,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35926\/revisions\/35927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}