{"id":36685,"date":"2021-09-09T22:38:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/09\/chaotic-uk-response-criticised-as-afghan-babies-wait-for-milk"},"modified":"2021-09-09T22:38:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:38:53","slug":"chaotic-uk-response-criticised-as-afghan-babies-wait-for-milk-and-donations-turned-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36685","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Chaotic\u2019 UK response criticised as Afghan babies wait for milk and donations turned away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers \u2018operating blind\u2019 about refugees\u2019 needs, while hotels left with no staff to distribute aid<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s response towards families evacuated from Afghanistan to Britain has been \u201cchaotic and uncoordinated\u201d, hampering volunteers\u2019 efforts to help, charities have said. <\/p>\n<p>One hotel where 50 babies were in quarantine with their families after fleeing the Taliban had no formula milk, they said. In other hotels, supplies of clothes, toiletries and nappies donated by the public were turned away by managers who had no staff to distribute them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/09\/chaotic-uk-response-criticised-as-afghan-babies-wait-for-milk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers \u2018operating blind\u2019 about refugees\u2019 needs, while hotels left with no staff to distribute aidThe government\u2019s response towards families evacuated from Afghanistan to Britain has been \u201cchaotic and uncoordinated\u201d, hampering volunteers\u2019 efforts to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"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":[46,2190,59,1440,717,4,481,494,79,61,52,2191,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-charities","category-global-development","category-home-office","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-politics","category-priti-patel","category-refugees","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-voluntary-sector","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\/36685","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\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36686,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36685\/revisions\/36686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}