{"id":41778,"date":"2018-04-27T10:01:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T17:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/?p=41778"},"modified":"2021-05-12T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T23:02:09","slug":"sneaking-war-torn-syria-changed-life-puneh-alai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/sneaking-war-torn-syria-changed-life-puneh-alai\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sneaking into War-Torn Syria Changed My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo spread the message of one human race,\u201d says humanitarian, <a href=\"\/bahai-faith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baha\u2019i<\/a> and non-profit founder Puneh Ala\u2019i, explaining why she goes to war zones to alleviate human suffering. During her first trip to Syria, Puneh realizes that simply taking supplies and food aid to those who suffer isn\u2019t a sustainable strategy\u2014so she and a colleague start a school for Syrian refugee children, called Birds of Hope. Its mission? \u201cTo teach every student, even though they\u2019ve endured psychological trauma, that they can be agents of change for something better and more positive.\u201d Puneh says \u201cI encourage you to live with your hearts open, to respond with love, and to actively make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Listen to the podcast on <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/bahaiteachings\/how-sneaking-into-war-torn-syria-changed-my-life-puneh-alai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SoundCloud<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo spread the message of one human race,\u201d says humanitarian, Baha\u2019i and non-profit founder Puneh Ala\u2019i, explaining why she goes to war zones to alleviate human suffering. During her first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15787,"featured_media":65483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15787"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41778"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=41778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}