{"id":37305,"date":"2021-09-25T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/sep\/25\/over-the-moon-10-afghan-orphans-start-new-life-in-australia-but-fear-for-others-trying-to-flee"},"modified":"2021-09-25T05:00:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T20:00:23","slug":"over-the-moon-10-afghan-orphans-start-new-life-in-australia-but-fear-for-others-still-trying-to-flee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37305","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Over the moon\u2019: 10 Afghan orphans start new life in Australia but fear for others still trying to flee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Group run by Sydney-based woman known as the \u2018mother of a thousand\u2019 is working to rescue as many children as possible<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the Taliban tightened its grip on power in Afghanistan \u2013 casting girls from schools, ordering women home from work, and threatening to reinstitute the barbaric punishments that blighted their last rule \u2013 10 young orphans packed everything they owned and quietly made their way out of Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>Those 10 Afghan orphans \u2013 cared for in orphanages run by Sydney-based woman Mahboba Rawi and near-certain targets for Taliban retribution \u2013 were guided over Afghanistan\u2019s fraught borderlands into Pakistan, where they found sanctuary, and from where they were helped onto evacuation flights to a new home in Australia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/sep\/25\/over-the-moon-10-afghan-orphans-start-new-life-in-australia-but-fear-for-others-trying-to-flee\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group run by Sydney-based woman known as the \u2018mother of a thousand\u2019 is working to rescue as many children as possibleGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingAs the Taliban tightened its grip on power in Afghanistan \u2013 casting girls from sch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[46,43,388,491,61,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-migration","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37305","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37306,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37305\/revisions\/37306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}