{"id":35992,"date":"2021-08-27T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/afghan-refugees-arrive-uk-what-can-you-do-help"},"modified":"2021-08-27T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T06:00:10","slug":"as-afghan-refugees-arrive-in-the-uk-what-can-you-do-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35992","title":{"rendered":"As Afghan refugees arrive in the UK, what can you do to help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charities need clothing, baby items, smartphones and cash donations, plus spare rooms or your time<\/p>\n<p>About 10,000 Afghans are forecast to be flown to the UK this year for resettlement under two schemes after fleeing the Taliban takeover, , but the true number could be higher.<\/p>\n<p>Half worked for the British army or other UK institutions and qualify for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/afghan-relocations-and-assistance-policy\/afghan-relocations-and-assistance-policy-information-and-guidance\">Afghan relocations and assistance policy<\/a> (Arap). The others will arrive on the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/afghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme\">Afghan citizens\u2019 resettlement scheme<\/a>, which prioritises other vulnerable people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/afghan-refugees-arrive-uk-what-can-you-do-help\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charities need clothing, baby items, smartphones and cash donations, plus spare rooms or your timeAbout 10,000 Afghans are forecast to be flown to the UK this year for resettlement under two schemes after fleeing the Taliban takeover, , but the true nu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2421,"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":[46,494,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35992","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\/2421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35993,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35992\/revisions\/35993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}