{"id":100763,"date":"2020-04-04T16:19:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T23:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100763"},"modified":"2020-04-04T16:19:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T23:19:54","slug":"covid-19-community-support-voluntary-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/04\/covid-19-community-support-voluntary-service\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Community Support voluntary service"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">JVP UKC Community Support voluntary service<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Dear Fellow Sri Lankan&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Coronavirus and the restrictions\nimposed to help manage it are challenging to us all. However, some people in\nour community, particularly those at risk due to age, isolation or illness are\nfinding it particularly difficult to cope.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The JVP UK Committee is offering a\nCOVID-19 Community Support voluntary service for anyone who needs help with\nshopping, accessing healthcare, services or medications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the services that we offer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. If you or your family is in\nisolation and have nobody to help you with essential shopping, medication or\nany other necessary assistance, our volunteers could help<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. We can put you in touch with the\ngovernment and non-government organisations who provide help\/services or\ncontact them on your behalf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Our team of medical professionals\ncan assist and advise you if you require medical advise and guidance (please be\naware that they may be limited in terms of which service or advise that they\ncan offer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. We understand that these are\nstressful times for most people, whether related to finances, health, concerns\nabout your loved ones or any other concerns that you may have, our team can\nlisten\/advise\/extend support assist you in anyway we can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. We can also extend this help to\nSri Lanka through JVP RED force team in Sri Lanka so please let us know of any\nloved ones or individuals who may require assistance back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you or anyone that you know needs\nthis type of assistance please do not hesitate to get in touch with us either\nvia email or call us on one of the numbers below. Please also note that we\nextend this gesture to beyond the Sri Lankan community in the UK, to all our\nnon-Sri Lankan friends and neighbours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asanga:Karunadhara07904 091266<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ranjith: Siriwardhana 07984396378<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>thusara Dasanayake 07903707890<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darshana Hettiarachchi 07898642683<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to volunteer to\njoin hands with us, please give us a call.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JVP UKC Community Support voluntary service Dear Fellow Sri Lankan&nbsp; The Coronavirus and the restrictions imposed to help manage it are challenging to us all. However, some people in our community, particularly those at risk due to age, isolation or illness are finding it particularly difficult to cope.&nbsp; The JVP UK Committee is offering a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}